Cormac McCarthy Quotes

How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

Cormac McCarthy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • History
  • Help

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Being
  • Questions
  • Reputation

• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Money
  • Problem

• I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • She
  • Hand

• I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Important
  • Think
  • Distance

• I write about true-life type things.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Life
  • True
  • Things

• I'm a working-class person, working with class.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Person
  • Working
  • Class

• My ultimate goal is whenever I go on the court, I just want to be known as one of the better players.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Better

• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Woman

• Quality is pride of workmanship.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Pride

• I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Baseball

• I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Book
  • Political

• Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. … Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Done
  • True

• So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Style
  • Smile
  • Jump

• Как легко, доктор, быть философом на бумаге и как это трудно на деле!

  

  Anton Chekhov

• My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.

  

  Elias James Corey
  • Work
  • Age

• As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

  

  John Kricfalusi
  • Bad
  • Wonder

• Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

  

  Anurag Kashyap

• It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Film

• Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Intelligent

• How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

  

  Cormac McCarthy