E. S. Carter Quotes

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

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

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

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.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

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

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

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

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.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

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.

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

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

There is no normality in life.

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

You cannot con an honest man.

We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.