Nicholas G. Carr Quotes

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

Nicholas G. Carr

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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Child

• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Love
  • America

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Die

• Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Consistency

• Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Music

• I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • August

• I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Journey

• Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Cat

• I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

  

  Bruce Greenwood
  • Husband

• On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

  

  Kay Lenz
  • Food
  • Birthday

• Youth is truth.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Truth

• Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Love
  • Faith

• What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Work
  • Long

• Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

  

  William Shatner
  • Sake

• We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

  

  Nicholas G. Carr
  • Thinking
  • Printing
  • Contemplative