Galt Niederhoffer famous quotes

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#Accessories #Maps

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#Summer #Depressing #Rainy Day

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#Lying #Two #Light

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#Book #Talking #Ideas

She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#Brokenhearted

Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#Sex #Betrayal #Innocent

If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.
-- Galt Niederhoffer

#World #Disappoint

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.

My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.