Raymond Carver Quotes

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Education
  • Relationship

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• 'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Distance

• Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.

  

  Taliesin
  • King
  • Hero

• With a tongue like a razor he will kissthe mother, the child,and we three will color the stars blackin memory of his motherwho kept him chained to the food treeor turned him on and off like a water faucetand made women through all these hazy yearsthe enemy with a heart of lies.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Happy

• I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Time
  • Believe

• You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Die

• You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Words

• I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Movie
  • Titanic

• I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • Serious

• I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

  

  Philippe Petit

• In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Earth

• I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

  

  Rick James
  • Long
  • Earth

• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Kind

• I do not like this place Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a small fishing-village on the Spanish border. I find it arid and dried up. The sea here is ugly. It is either all blue - I hate it like that - or dark and dull.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Up
  • Small
  • Hate

• That which is most personal, is most interesting.

  

  William James
  • Interesting

• And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Earth
  • Beloved