Emily Carr Quotes

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Emily Carr

• Mood

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wall

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Creative
  • Media
  • Become

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Judge
  • Characters
  • Well

• I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Amazing
  • Goal
  • Memories

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • American
  • Science
  • Small

• I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • City
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Myself
  • Successful
  • Lucky

• There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Young

• Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Opportunity
  • Mood

• Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Giving

• The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another country's movies.

  

  Lucy Fisher
  • Up
  • Country
  • Nature

• It was an incredible experience performing for the members and attendees at the Diamond Resorts Invitational; it was such an impressive event, and I was honored to be a part of it.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Experience
  • Diamond

• There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Mood