Ajay Naidu Quotes

I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

America has been a very cold place to me, and it was good once in a while. I meet good people. Sometimes I meet bad people. But there are some things that I still haven't forgotten today that hurt that bad.

It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.

It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist.