Caryl Chessman (Caryl Whittier Chessman) Quotes

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

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• I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Remember
  • Point
  • Meals

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Angry
  • Listen
  • Anger

• My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• 'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Generosity

• ~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• It doesn't make sense that Arizona's prices should suddenly jump up higher than California's, ... Arizonans deserve real answers.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Answers
  • Prices
  • Make Sense

• Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Book
  • House
  • Dark

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  

  William James
  • Success
  • Positive
  • Successful

• Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Confidence
  • Optimism

• If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Real

• True contentment comes with empathy.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Empathy
  • Contentment

• How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Destination
  • Pleasant
  • Pursue

• A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Places
  • Visual
  • Diary

• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  

  Arnold J. Mandell
  • Football
  • Games
  • Generations

• If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.

  

  G-Eazy
  • World
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

  

  Caryl Chessman
  • Pleasant
  • Fellows