Carson McCullers Quotes

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

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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

• 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
  • Weird

• If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Change
  • Spiritual
  • Conscious

• We now know that there is another possible response to threat, which our scans aren’t yet capable of measuring. Some people simply go into denial: Their bodies register the threat, but their conscious minds go on as if nothing has happened. However, even though the mind may learn to ignore the messages from the emotional brain, the alarm signals don’t stop. The emotional brain keeps working, and stress hormones keep sending signals to the muscles to tense for action or immobilize in collapse. The physical effects on the organs go on unabated until they demand notice when they are expressed as illness. Medications, drugs, and alcohol can also temporarily dull or obliterate unbearable sensations and feelings. But the body continues to keep the score.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Ignore
  • Conscious
  • Response

• It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • World
  • Children
  • Financial

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

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Conscious
  • Dreamer