Cormac McCarthy Quotes

The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

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

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Snow

• My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Give
  • Target

• The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Single

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• 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

• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Movie
  • You
  • Look

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Deadline

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • History
  • Science

• A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Heart
  • History
  • Drama

• In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It's more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.

  

  Baran Odar
  • People
  • Art
  • America

• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men