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

• The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Revision
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Catholic Work

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up watching movies thinking, 'That's what I want to do when I grow up.' I didn't really particularly know I had an aptitude for it.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Simple

• What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Business
  • Interesting

• 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