Carmeta Fraser Quotes

#1. Leisure is gone,
gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

George Eliot

#2. a few of them even looked like soldiers. In a bad light. If you squint.

George R R Martin

#3. Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?

Eckhart Tolle

#4. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

Steven Pressfield

#5. I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

Julia Roberts

#6. The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.

Paullina Simons

#7. That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

Katharine Hepburn

#9. When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?

Richard Meltzer

#10. Art is not a mobocracy. It's a republic.

Richard Powers