Carolyn Crane Quotes

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

Carolyn Crane

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• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Uncle

• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Politics
  • President
  • Talking

• I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Past
  • Starting
  • Again

• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Long
  • Night

• People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Overcoming
  • Defeat

• I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Friends
  • City

• It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parents

• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  

  Alan Goldsher
  • Men
  • Long
  • Remember

• The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.

  

  P. M. H. Atwater
  • People
  • Life
  • Light

• Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Death
  • Existence
  • Darkness

• Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

  

  Carolyn Crane
  • Darkness
  • Accumulate