Cormac McCarthy Quotes

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Clothes
  • Got
  • Collector

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Small
  • Friendship
  • Silly

• You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Work
  • Single

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Jerusalem
  • Grandeur

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Working

• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Globalization

• I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Being
  • Writer
  • Before

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Brain
  • Use
  • Both

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Holidays

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Passion

• I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Famous

• The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

  

  Frank D. Gilroy

• Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Control

• I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

  

  Jonathan Brandis
  • Children
  • School
  • High

• I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Pretty