Clonis Farmer Quotes

#1. Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

Cornelia Funke

#2. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

Lord Byron

#3. It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

Joan Chen

#4. There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

#5. When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Andrew Young

#6. When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

Adrian Beltre

#7. We are all eaters of souls.

Dan Simmons

#8. Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Maya Angelou

#9. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Naomi Wolf

#10. Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

Princess Shikishi

#11. All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

Peter Warlock

#12. When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

Marc Forster

#13. A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Iris Murdoch