Carson McCullers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
Edgar Ramirez
-
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
-
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas
-
I never thought about being famous.
Damon Wayans
-
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
Zachary Taylor
-
Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
Sam Weller
-
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Lysander Spooner
-
I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.
Mary Beard
-
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
George Cukor
-
If I had an explanation, I'd give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end. They did everything right, and we couldn't do anything right.
Allen Iverson
-
While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
Carson McCullers
