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'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

• I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Life

• I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Career

• The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Life
  • American
  • Goals

• The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

  

  David Wolpe
  • Character
  • Struggle
  • Adversity

• The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

  

  Donatella Versace

• We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

  

  Annette Bening
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• 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