John McCarthy Quotes

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

John McCarthy

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• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Golf

• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Cooking
  • Sauce
  • Tricky

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Always
  • Sports
  • Interest

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Hand
  • Find
  • Jump

• The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • People
  • Dream
  • Goal

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sense

• As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Productive

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Sometimes
  • Face
  • Sleeping

• I started skating when I was six years old.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Years
  • Old
  • Skating

• These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Mind
  • Character

• It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • World
  • Live
  • Courage

• Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

  

  Aaron Betsky
  • Life
  • Art
  • Design

• There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dream
  • Conscious
  • Associate

• I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Funny
  • English
  • Language

• Language is froth on the surface of thought.

  

  John McCarthy