Eaglesmith Fred Quotes

#1. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

Bell Hooks

#2. I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

Fred Eaglesmith

#3. It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. ... We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony. The Black Company pg 447

Glen Cook

#5. Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

#6. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

#7. You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things ... I just go, That's just fabulous.

Fred Eaglesmith

#8. You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

T.D. Jakes

#9. Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

Marcel Proust

#10. Every empathic human heart seeks meaning.

Jeffrey A. White

#11. There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Paul Gauguin

#12. When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it ...

Fred Eaglesmith

#13. If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Christina Stead