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Caroline Gordon Quotes

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Caroline Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 6, 1895 - April 11, 1981

Topics

World Book Magic Way Carpet Cannot

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

Creative Me Song Someone You Want

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.

Melissa McCarthy

Shoes Tears Hair Grow Wish Idiot

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

John Hickenlooper

Remember Class Always Out Little

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Best Rest Surprise Walking Pictures

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

World You Know Important Understand

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

Work Myself Day Space Thinking Real

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

Think Everyone Just Failures I Think

You and I can go on YouTube and learn how to fix a tractor engine or learn Farsi. Groups are using those tools to recruit young people into a climate of hatred.

People Tools Learn You I Can Young

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

William T. Vollmann

Coffee Job College Me Small Wings

Overall, I try to have five small meals a day to keep my metabolism up.

Day Small Try Up Meals Keep

Back off or the lizard gets it!

Back Lizard Off Gets

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

World You Happen Up Anything Cup

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