One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. Andrew Schneider More Quotes by Andrew Schneider More Quotes From Andrew Schneider I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff...I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound. Andrew Schneider I'm grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I'd be in Cicely right now and I'd still be running that rat race, still locked in that commute. I'd be totally stressed, I'd be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I'm happier now than I've ever been. Andrew Schneider If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. Andrew Schneider It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. Andrew Schneider Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. Andrew Schneider Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. Andrew Schneider Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring. Andrew Schneider Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. Andrew Schneider Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. Andrew Schneider She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. Andrew Schneider The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out. Andrew Schneider The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't. Andrew Schneider There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart. Andrew Schneider They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supposed to fly solo. Andrew Schneider This is Chris-in-the-Morning with the weather and time--24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold. Andrew Schneider Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. Andrew Schneider Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. Andrew Schneider We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us Andrew Schneider You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality. Andrew Schneider We think the Fed is still on track for a 25 basis points cut given trade uncertainty and the steady downtrend in business sentiment. Andrew Schneider business