E. S. Carter Quotes

...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really!

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

There is no normality in life.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.

My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.