If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't … - Emily Carr

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

Emily Carr

If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

Cake, Caraway, Hate, Lick, Might, Seeds

Same Author Quotes

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Dialect, Different, Half, Language, Lost, Same

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

Envelopes, Everybody, Lick, Made, Privacy, Thrust

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Artist, Religion, Religious, Sincere, Think, Thinking

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

Clung, Density, Earth, Juice, Volume

The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.

Cat, Feet, Home, Rooms, Sit, Unfamiliar