Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Men are made of the dust of the earth.

Cormac McCarthy

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Sound
  • Move
  • Cube

• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Freedom
  • Explore
  • Tradition

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Formula One

• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Strange

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Hurts

• I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine -I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine;Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine !. . .Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain,And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Free

• There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.

  

  Margaret Turnbull
  • Stars
  • Planet
  • Galaxy

• I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Men
  • Night

• One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

  

  M. Carey Thomas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• Men are made of the dust of the earth.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • Earth