Caryl Chessman (Caryl Whittier Chessman) Quotes

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

Caryl Chessman

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Look

• My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.

  

  Candace Camp
  • People
  • She
  • Kids

• The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • War
  • Fight

• Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
  • Transformation
  • Thoughtful

• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  

  Jesse Schell
  • Brother

• There are a lot of obligations when you put out a record and it does well. People want to talk to you, which is nice. So then you make sure you do that.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • People
  • Nice

• The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Done
  • Business
  • Sad

• I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Die

• Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

  

  Anita Baker

• I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

  

  Shakira
  • Dad
  • Arabic

• I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

  

  Jim Renacci
  • Health

• We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Children
  • House
  • Parents

• The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • School
  • Beginning

• Ultimately, one of the best decisions I ever made was when I became a Buffalo Bill.

  

  Jim Kelly

• I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

  

  Alicia Silverstone

• During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.

  

  John Delaney
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

  

  Benny Green

• I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

  

  Kirsten Vangsness
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Shopping

• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Labels
  • Sticks
  • Vagrants

• A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

  

  Caryl Chessman