C Robert Cargill Quotes

“No thinking thing should be another thing's property.”

C Robert Cargill

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Inspiration
  • Thing

• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Thing
  • Say

• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Road
  • Right
  • Thing

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Thing

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Find
  • Difficult

• Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Property

• The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Thing

• I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Thing
  • Retirement
  • Got

• The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Change
  • Always
  • Thing

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Hate
  • Thing
  • Sex symbol

• I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Person
  • Thing
  • Used to

• I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

  

  Doris Day
  • Thing
  • Greatest
  • Dancing

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Doing

• I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Kids

• Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Habit
  • Memory
  • Rules

• “No thinking thing should be another thing's property.”

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Thing
  • Property