Carson McCullers Quotes

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

Carson McCullers

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• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Society
  • Science
  • Dark

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Boy

• Those women are the true divas. They're amazing performers, whom I've listened to for years. These are the people who've inspired me to sing, so it's flattering that I'm being compared to them. But I have a lot of hard work to do first.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Great
  • Money
  • Society

• There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Quality

• Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game - and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.

  

  Gayle King
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Couple

• I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Life

• You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Work

• I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.

  

  Emily Blunt

• The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
  • High

• No voters will be left behind.

  

  Donna Brazile

• The whole of this studio is bonded; that is to say, we are not officially in Japan per se, but rather, in what is considered for these purposes an adjunct of the customs shed at Narita airport. Officially, we are not here because we are pornographic. It's a rather curious situation.

  

  Peter Greenaway

• Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Growing
  • Running
  • Dad

• I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Morning
  • Sports

• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sad
  • Information
  • Thing

• It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.

  

  Jim Bunning
  • Energy

• Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Morning
  • Sunday
  • Musical