Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Cormac McCarthy

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Colum McCann

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Cliff Richard

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

Conan O'Brien

Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

Conan O'Brien

Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.

Conan O'Brien

A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.

E. W. Howe

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

E. W. Howe

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

Dyan Cannon

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy

Dwight Schultz

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

Dwight Schultz

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Dwight Yoakam

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

Dwight Howard

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

Dwight Howard

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

Dwight Howard

I know who I am and what kind of teammate I've always been.

Dwyane Wade

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

Dwyane Wade

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

Dwyane Wade

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Dwyane Wade

I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game.

Dwyane Wade

Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

Dwyane Wade

Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.

Dwyane Wade

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

Courtney Barnett

I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.

Courtney Barnett

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

Courtney Love

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.