Raymond Carver Quotes

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

Raymond Carver

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• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Character
  • Free
  • Legal

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Nature
  • Young
  • Juice

• Love is sweeping the country.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Country
  • Love
  • Love Is

• All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Different
  • Song
  • Black

• I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Ifs
  • Taste

• We've made our list and want consumers to check it twice, ... Preventing needles tragedies and providing a safe environment are the best holiday gifts parents can provide their children.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Environment

• In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Desire

• I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I think your posing and your onstage presentation is yet another piece of the craft. So anytime you get onstage to show the muscles and show the finished work, that should be looked at with the same kind of respect and appreciation. I'm glad everybody else appreciates it, but I still want to get better.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Inspiration

• When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hands

• The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Soul
  • Principles
  • Bear

• Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Man
  • Article
  • Healthy Body

• If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wind
  • Flood

• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Moment
  • Behavior

• We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.

  

  Carroll Eugene Simcox
  • Religion
  • Impossible

• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Breath
  • Belts
  • Passengers

• We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Human Beings
  • Terrorist
  • Liars

• It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Becoming
  • Intention
  • Liars