Natalie Maines Quotes

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.

I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

I love to be in Hawaii - everything very natural, and my style reflects that.

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii?

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.

Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

Think street, train sport.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.