Julias Cafe Quotes & Sayings

I am terrified she will give up on me, that this thing will drive her away. Every depressive has that fear. Why would anyone want us? We don't even want ourselves. Sometimes, we try to drive the people who love us away. Not because we don't want them with us, but because we cannot bear for them to see what we have become. — Sally Brampton

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways. — Carl Sagan

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature. — Diane Ackerman

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear. — Philip Sidney

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals. — James C. Collins

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews. — Dakota Fanning

Nevertheless, in some ways I had lost touch with many of the currents of French culture and theoretical discussion after the 1960s, and, although any admirer of Queneau and Perec cannot but be sympathetic to the French intellectual tradition of playing games with language, as French thinkers increasingly moved into the territory of 'postmodernism' I found them uninteresting, incomprehensible, and in any case of not much use to historians. Even their puns failed to grip. — Eric Hobsbawm

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. — William Shakespeare