Fleager Quotes & Sayings

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does. — Stanley Schmidt

The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. — Jane Austen

People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project. — Patti Scialfa

There was a young woman named Fleager
Who was terribly, terribly eager
To be all the rage
On the tragedy stage,
Though her talents were pitifully meagre. — Edward Gorey

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. — John B. S. Haldane

Yoga is the space where flower blossoms. — Amit Ray

Give me your hand," she says. "Which is your best finger?"
"They are all better at different things."
"Don't be obstinate. — Pierce Brown

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves. — William Hazlitt

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly. — Rumi