Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
Quotes to Explore
-
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
-
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
-
At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
-
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
-
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
-
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-
Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
-
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
-
I would like to see a little more rationality in the schedule planning of the end-users.
-
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
-
The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
-
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
-
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
-
I think your vision gets better as you get older.
-
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
-
A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.
-
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.
-
Nothing good ever happens after midnight.
-
All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.
-
I always had a fascination with twins.
-
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
