Carson McCullers Quotes

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers

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• If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Start

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Child
  • Actually
  • Some

• For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • You
  • Never
  • Losing

• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Embarrassed

• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • May
  • Always
  • Promise

• When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feel

• Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Television

• I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Comfortable
  • How

• The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Money
  • History
  • Quality

• I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Dream
  • Model
  • Clever

• It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Never
  • Driving
  • England

• Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Sleep

• Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

  

  Lewis Thompson Preston
  • Justice

• 'Twould ring the bells of HeavenThe wildest peal for years,If Parson lost his sensesAnd people came to theirs,And he and they togetherKnelt down with angry prayersFor tamed and shabby tigersAnd dancing dogs and bears,And wretched, blind, pit ponies,And little hunted hares.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Angry

• Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • People
  • Giving
  • Longing