Carson McCullers Quotes

She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Carson McCullers

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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Soul
  • Sky

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Creative

• I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Working
  • Improv
  • Excite

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • History
  • Inspiration
  • Strength

• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Just
  • Run
  • West

• Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.

  

  Randy Pausch

• A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Up
  • Painting

• The world is always ending, for someone.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.

  

  Leon Max
  • Country
  • History
  • Culture

• Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Music
  • Free
  • Independent

• I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • True
  • Write
  • Promise

• A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Mother
  • Beginning

• Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • World
  • Children

• You could say slowly but surely, the world is changing in a good way - equality in all forms is more and more part of the global conversation, and people are celebrating diversity and individuality.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.

  

  Frederick the Great
  • Life
  • Men
  • Heart

• She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Listening