Carson McCullers Quotes

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

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• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Flowers

• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Party
  • Day
  • Myself

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!

  

  Karen Blixen
  • True
  • Silly

• In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.

  Anita Brookner
  • Eyes
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • School
  • History
  • High

• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Important
  • Value

• When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Inspiration
  • Waver

• The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Value

• Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

  

  James Buchan
  • Business
  • Revolution

• I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Music
  • Career
  • College

• I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Live
  • Truth

• What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Success
  • motivation
  • Students

• Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Thinking
  • Grieving

• Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Barack Obama
  • Magazine

• The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

  

  Paul de Man
  • Action
  • Language
  • Writer

• I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Thinking
  • Real