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

• Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Jobs
  • Creating
  • Lines

• When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Time
  • Jesus
  • Pray

• It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Change
  • Dreams
  • Photographs

• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Music

• My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.

  

  Deborah Kass
  • Work
  • War
  • History

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

  

  Caryl Chessman