Susan Glaspell Quotes

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

We all get discouraged.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

But nothing seems to do any good.

I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!

If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

Much outcry, little outcome.

I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.