Carson McCullers Quotes

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

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• I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Time
  • Game
  • Know

• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Song
  • Church

• Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Most

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Words
  • You

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • House
  • Man

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Important
  • Power
  • Political

• Life is short and progress is slow.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Short

• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Microsoft
  • E-mail

• I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Moonlight

• I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Good
  • Different
  • Feels

• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Body

• A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Saint

• A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Helping

• Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Dance

• Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Confidence

• I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

  

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
  • People
  • War
  • Mean

• A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

  

  Charlie Waite
  • Political
  • Image
  • Landscape

• If a negative atmosphere pervades where you live or work, go elsewhere. Seek out friends, business associates, and mentors with positive attitudes who share your goals and best interests.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Interests

• The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Space
  • Inspiration
  • Office

• Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Window
  • Doctors
  • Chairs