Carson McCullers Quotes

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Death
  • Peace

• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Impression

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• Metaphysics is a science.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Metaphysics

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Free

• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Knife
  • Sharpening

• I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • End

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Week

• I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Desire
  • Unique

• Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice

• I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Kids

• When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

  

  James Balog
  • Patience
  • Humility

• I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.

  

  Angie Martinez
  • Hate

• Self – love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self – neglecting.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Self-Love
  • Neglecting

• And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Picture
  • London
  • Challenging

• If the day comes when I'm no longer playing Phil Coulson, I'll very gratefully bid him farewell, because it's been an incredible journey, but I've learned that it's best to just be grateful for where I am and make the most out of that opportunity that day.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Opportunity
  • Journey
  • Farewell

• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Journey

• I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Journey
  • Goals
  • Set

• There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Journey
  • Form
  • Outlines