Carson McCullers Quotes
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
-
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
-
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
-
I watch a lot of football.
-
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
-
We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
-
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
-
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
-
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
-
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
-
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
-
When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
-
What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
-
The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
-
a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
-
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
-
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
-
I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
-
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
-
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
-
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
-
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.
-
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
