Maelia Carter Quotes & Sayings

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? — Samuel Beckett

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. — Marilyn Monroe

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Once someone has bound your heart, he's the only person who can let it loose again. — Charles Baxter

[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today. — Hal Holbrook

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as "love." "Love" is abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self-increasing. — Erich Fromm

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake. — Terry Pratchett