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

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• 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 was born free.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Free
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• 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

• In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

  

  Dan Gillmor
  • Culture
  • Creating
  • Consuming

• I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

  

  Patrick White
  • Bad
  • Produce
  • Novels

• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• 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