J.L. Carr Quotes
I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.
I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.
Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.
I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.
The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.
Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.
Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.
I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.
Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, my perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.
For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.
When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.
A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."
My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!
I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.
The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.
Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.
I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.
Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?