Cormac McCarthy Quotes

I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. -John Joel Glanton.

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • True

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Day
  • Roots

• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happiness

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Ifs
  • Talk

• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Fun
  • Movies
  • Cancer

• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Careful
  • Adventures

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Children
  • Young

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Rock
  • Present

• The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Kitchen
  • Opening

• It's kinda all about image.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Image
  • About
  • Kinda

• When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Book
  • Find

• I love the free spirit in London.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Free
  • Spirit
  • London

• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Want
  • Sexy

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Singing

• I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, "Susan Lucci. I have to do this.

  

  Richard Masur
  • People
  • Children
  • Moments

• I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Long
  • Popular

• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Planning
  • Desert

• I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. -John Joel Glanton.

  

  Cormac McCarthy