Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own 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.
-
It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
-
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
-
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.
-
The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
-
When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
-
We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
-
Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
-
I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
-
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.
-
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
-
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.
-
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?
-
I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie - it was like NASCAR for potheads.
-
I live, to get out of what I live through.
-
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.
-
I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.
-
There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.
-
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
-
Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
-
If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
