Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

I love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

I carry my own food with me everywhere I go.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

the best committee's a committee of one!

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

I never expected anything to be given to me.

What I hate in movies is all those people you need. And then I realize I do better when I shoot by myself.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.