Francesca Lia Block Quotes

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Won't you ride my white horse?

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

We need the tonic of wildness.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.