Eugene McCarthy Quotes

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

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• Voyage

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• When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Family
  • Home
  • Movie

• Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Great
  • Tragedy
  • Storytelling

• 'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Film
  • Wind
  • Romantic

• 'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Period
  • Dreams

• It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Today
  • Funny

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• (The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Titanic

• A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I got into history when I was 11 years old, and it all started with the Titanic. I'd read books in the library about it. Of course I've seen the movie, too - I don't think I've ever cried that much.

  

  Katherine Langford
  • History
  • Movie
  • Library

• The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.

  

  John Dickerson
  • History
  • Single
  • Titanic

• Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Worry
  • Sailing
  • Titanic

• When you look at movies like 'Titanic,' they make money because of women. They go to see it and bring their men, too.

  

  David Ramsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Work
  • Friend
  • Trust

• No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Censorship
  • Survived

• We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the Big East is another story. You have to grow up in a hurry. We are just not physically talented with out inexperience and youth.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Survived
  • Inexperience
  • Conference USA

• Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Survived
  • Discouragement

• We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Life is
  • Believing
  • Survived

• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Citizens
  • Ideal
  • Muslims

• Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Good
  • Popular

• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • High
  • Game
  • Jump

• I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fresh

• I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Trying
  • English

• Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Titanic
  • Survived
  • Voyage