Carson McCullers Quotes

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Carson McCullers

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• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • American
  • Style
  • Conscious

• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Freedom
  • Blind
  • Conscious

• It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Different
  • Present
  • Nothing

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Conscious
  • Become

• Growing up it all seems so one-sidedOpinions all providedThe future pre-decidedDetached and subdividedIn the mass production zoneNowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone - Subdivisions (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Up
  • Future
  • Growing

• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  

  Alan King
  • Up
  • Father
  • Guy

• I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lives
  • Result
  • Conscious

• There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Real
  • Business
  • Today

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Conscious

• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Conscious

• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Conscious

• The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Made
  • Singer

• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Pain

• Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Dreamer
  • Criminal

• All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Art
  • Power
  • Faith

• Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Conscious

• It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Period

• When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.

  

  George Washington
  • Different
  • Art
  • War

• You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

  

  Joseph Kosinski
  • Movies
  • Kid
  • Watch

• The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

  

  Andy Hargreaves
  • Learning
  • Quality
  • Teachers

• The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Conscious
  • Dreamer