Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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

Cormac McCarthy

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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

• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Generosity

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• We need a great president.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great

• I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Joy

• There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lessons

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

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men