Caryl Chessman (Caryl Whittier Chessman) Quotes

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

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• 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

• Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • House

• 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

• Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • See
  • Photograph
  • Details

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

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • War
  • Fight

• With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Words

• 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

• Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

  

  James F. Amos
  • War
  • Action
  • Missing

• 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

• Since I was 9 years old, I've been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what - and what not - to do... you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World

• 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

• To see that I'm on a good path, that I'm improving, is what I want to feel.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Good
  • Path

• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

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

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Die

• I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • World
  • Music
  • Money

• I feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • People
  • Opportunity

• When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • People
  • Mind
  • Soul

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

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

  

  Caryl Chessman