Carson McCullers Quotes

While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

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• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• 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
  • Art
  • Same
  • Movement

• I never thought about being famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Famous

• 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
  • Power
  • Honesty
  • Informed

• 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
  • Good
  • Age
  • Forever

• As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • World
  • Ugly

• I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Life
  • Determination

• Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

  

  Brian P. Cleary
  • Kids
  • Words
  • Funny

• I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.

  

  Mary Pierce

• I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

  

  James Caan
  • Couple
  • Golf
  • Athlete

• You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

  

  Craig L. Thomas
  • American
  • Dream

• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Rock

• The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Understanding

• I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • Eyes

• Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Why
  • High
  • Whole

• While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Time
  • World
  • Running