Cormac McCarthy Quotes

If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.

Cormac McCarthy

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• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

  

  Randy Moss
  • People
  • Always
  • Rules

• I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Often
  • Fooled

• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
  • New
  • Really

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Female
  • Conquest

• We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Kid

• Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Fast

• I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Always
  • Force
  • Some

• I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Principles
  • Market
  • Entrepreneurs

• My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Life
  • Politics
  • My Life

• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Country

• Since Pharaoh’s bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings-patient or impatient, but dyings-have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is 'taught to live' by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death?

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Live
  • Death
  • Die

• I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie - it was like NASCAR for potheads.

  

  Ann Coulter

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

  

  Mary Beard
  • God
  • History

• In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • Happy

• When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.

  

  Lin Dan
  • World
  • Rest

• I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • People
  • Success

• I don't want to attach myself to everything.

  

  Fabolous

• Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life

• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Eyes
  • Moon
  • Fierce

• If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.

  

  Cormac McCarthy