Raymond Carver Quotes

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

Raymond Carver

• Morning
• Strange
• Consideration
• Sleepy

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• I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Loved

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Want
  • Me
  • Talk

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mother

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Society
  • Science
  • Dark

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Sometimes I'll do a mask if I had a lot of makeup on that day or was out in the sun. I like a hydrogen mask. It's an easy one, and it's supposed to soothe and relax your skin.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Day
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • May
  • Friends

• You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Night
  • Excuses

• I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Beginning
  • Deep
  • Patience

• Nothing in the past is as important as the future.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • High
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I've never held out. I'm a first-class guy in any relationship. The first way of getting better is showing up, so I'm always going to show up and do my part and be ready to go.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• If I hadn’t gone into the movies, I might never had discovered that a day is made up of morning, afternoon, and evening, instead of afternoon, evening, and night. I never before realized that there was such an hour as nine A.M. I realize it bitterly now that I have to get to the Famous Player’s studio at that hour, but really the acting itself is a lark.

  

  Pauline Frederick
  • Morning
  • Movies
  • Discovered

• 'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.

  

  James Cromwell
  • People
  • Fun

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.

  

  Brian Cox
  • Light

• I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Morning
  • Strange
  • Consideration