Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Art class was my safe haven.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Everyone asks me about why I care about anime and football so much, but that's because anything dark that happened in my life, those two things would make me feel better. I just used to sit in front of the TV and watch football and breathe a sigh of relief. You know what I mean? It's another world. An escape.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Music is like my security blanket.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

The football field, I'd definitely say that's my safe place.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

Everyone needs a safe place in life, and pastors can be people's safe place.

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn't say, 'Hey, I felt sorry for you,' but, 'I get it, and I understand you,' it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don't want people to feel alone.

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

I love playing at Surrender because they let me be free and be myself... it's family, you know?

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.