Fiona Apple Quotes

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

Depart immediately and dare not anchor!

It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

If you get lost, you can always be found.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

Do you know the way to San Hose?

Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.