Carson McCullers Quotes

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Carson McCullers

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• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Judge

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Day

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• The motto of feminists: 'There is never an excuse for hitting a woman.' Shouldn’t it be, 'There is never an excuse for hitting.'?

  

  Warren Farrell

• We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Great
  • God
  • Generosity

• The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • World
  • Long
  • Dream

• All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Writing
  • May
  • Reality

• Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Different

• I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Bad
  • Nasty

• I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Catholic

• I liked television, and television liked me.

  

  Joel Siegel

• Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

  

  William Landay
  • Moments
  • Stories
  • Absolutes

• There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Lies
  • Common
  • Sorts

• If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Control
  • Fire

• I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Good
  • Understanding
  • Politicians

• One picture is worth a thousand words.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Words
  • Picture
  • Worth

• There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Understanding
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