Carson McCullers Quotes

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Carson McCullers

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• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • New
  • Creation

• Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Difficult

• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Cold

• In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Heart

• I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Kind

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Summer

• I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Ecstasy

• Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality
  • Cold

• The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hand
  • Cold
  • Chill

• And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Joy

• Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet,But only for one night with no repeat.Maybe you'd go away and never call,And a taste of honey is worse than none at all (oh little girl)Oh little girl, in that case I don't want no part. (I do believe that)That would only break my heart.Oh, but if you feel like loving me,If you got the notion,I second that emotion.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Night

• Faith is cold as ice.Why are little ones born only to sufferfor the want of immunity, or a bowl of rice?Well, who would hold a price on the heads of the innocent childrenif there's some immortal power to control the dice? - Roll The Bones (1991)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Why
  • Power
  • Faith

• The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and… installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world… Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.

  

  Ali Khamenei
  • World
  • Great
  • Heart

• George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Heart
  • Religious
  • Deep

• Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.

  

  Paul Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I wouldn't be the first quarterback from California to go to cold weather. I think Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are doing pretty well and been able to do it.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Pretty
  • Cold
  • California

• 'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mind

• Family occasions have always given Janice some pain, assembling like a grim jury these people to whom we owe something, first our parents and elders and then our children and their children. One of the things she and Harry secretly had in common, beneath all their troubles, was dislike of all that, these expected ceremonies.

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• Debates, I hate.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Hate

• We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Universe
  • Larger
  • Irremovably

• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Heart
  • Cold
  • Ecstasy