Carson McCullers Quotes

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Carson McCullers

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• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

  

  Nas
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• Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Successful
  • Chinese

• There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
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• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
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• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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  • Responsibility
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• There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Computers
  • Unpredictable

• I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

  

  Flume
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• It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • May
  • Space
  • Brain

• The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Value
  • Facts
  • Intellectual

• Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Red

• To me, fashion is like a mirror... It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Mirror

• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Money
  • Band
  • Rock

• No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.

  

  Bob Ehrlich

• About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Time
  • Business

• How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Angry

• Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Thinking
  • Smile

• I have admired Kevin Plank and Under Armour from afar. He has assembled an impressive team.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Team

• People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Feelings

• I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

  

  David Plouffe
  • Good
  • Believe
  • America

• Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

  

  Jean Simmons
  • Business
  • Beautiful

• A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Beautiful
  • Persons
  • Mediocre