Cormac McCarthy Quotes

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

Cormac McCarthy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 20, 1933

Topics

LifeLiveFreedomYouDangerousWay

Everybody told me that Taiwan is a very polite society and that people don't like gossip and scandals here. But they just pretend they don't like it. We have, by far, the biggest newspaper in Taiwan. They just buy it to read it at home.

Jimmy Lai

HomePeopleMeSocietyGossipBuy

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Joe Torre

FatherBestMeRole ModelRole

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

John Fleming

PowerOwnPurseGotOur

God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

GodMeMoldMadeBroke

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Jean Shepherd

FateHumanityHandHad

If there is a Swedish style, I cannot identify it.

Stefan Persson

StyleCannotIdentifySwedish

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

Stanley B. Prusiner

EducationResearchWritingProcess

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

Liz Phair

PeopleSurpriseKnowWhySurprises

Talking to someone you have a crush on is as scary as fighting a super-villain.

Jon Watts

FightingSomeoneTalkingYouScary

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu

PeaceFriendsYouWantTalkEnemies

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

Demi Moore

OpportunityPeopleIdeasThoughts

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

DeForest Kelley

SonYouSeeBaptistMinister

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