Emily Carr Quotes

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.