Carson McCullers Quotes

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

Carson McCullers

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• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Book
  • Goal
  • Doing

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Movement

• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Effort

• The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Black
  • Scared

• Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

  

  Jacqueline Cochran
  • Opportunity

• We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Important
  • Kids

• American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • American
  • Suffering

• Success is never final, but failure can be.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Justice

• By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

  

  Nell Newman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Previously, someone would interview me, and if they liked me, it'd be a great story. If they hated me, it'd be a horrible story. I had no way to say anything. Social media changed things for people who didn't have a voice.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • People
  • Great

• There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

  

  Peter Shilton
  • Football

• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • May
  • Tree

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Happiness
  • Matter
  • Cutting

• The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • May
  • Fun
  • Should

• That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Driving
  • Consciousness
  • Performances

• I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Feelings
  • Cutting
  • Adults