Freya Stark Quotes

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I will not let anyone into America that I think poses a risk to us.

As far as other people like in the migration, where they're going, tens of thousands of people having cell phones with ISIS flags on them? I don't think so.They're not coming to this country.And if I'm president and if Obama has brought some to this country, they are leaving. They're going. They're gone.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.