C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.”
Source: Raven Cursed: A Jane Yellowrock Novel
“Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts
“Chickens are a symbol of chaos. Wherever you stick a chicken, unless it's a chicken farm, it's just chaos.”
“Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.”
“Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.”
Source: Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford
“Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being.”
“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”
Source: Eating Animals
“Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.”
Source: Lizard Music
“Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.”
“Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.”
Source: Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”
Source: Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
“Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.”
“Chicks before dicks, and all that.”
Source: Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel
“Chicks can make you flip more than any drug would.”
“Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.”
“Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.”
Source: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
“Chicks dig historians.”
Source: Unearthly
“Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.”
“Chicks dig webmasters.”
“Chicks like it when you're on your knees.”
Source: The Graham Effect
“Chicks named Tammy have a greater chance of actually driving a Mercedes than a chick named Mercedes.”
“Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.”
“Chico, ¿a quién ofendo con eso, si son mis plumas?”
Source: El Lobo, El Bosque y El Hombre Nuevo
“Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response to what's happening, and everything else after that, your brain is involved because you have something to reference.”
“Chico Mendes definiu com as seguintes palavras as bases desta aliança: "Nunca mais um companheiro nosso vai derramar o sangue do outro; juntos nós podemos proteger a natureza, que é o lugar onde nossa gente aprendeu a viver, a criar os filhos e a desenvolver suas capacidades, dentro de um pensamento harmonioso com a natureza, com o meio ambiente e com os seres que habitam aqui.”
Source: O que é ecossocialismo?
“Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.”
Source: Shot of Tequila
“Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.”
“Chicory
(Cichorium intybus)
The ancient Egyptians considered chicory a magical plant, capable of removing all obstacles as well as opening locks, boxes, and doors. They anointed their bodies with chicory juice from the root of the plant in order to gain the powers of invisibility and special favors from important people. They believed chicory magic was much more potent if the plant was cut with a solid-gold knife, in total silence, at midnight. And if none of that worked, they ground and roasted the root and blended it with their favorite coffee to taste.
A very versatile plant indeed.”
Source: Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
“Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.”
“Chidren wish for a world pristine,
poets, to think, need a sheet that is clean,
clean, if, the sky, means the weather is good,
clear water - a mirror, reflects, like it should,
clear thoughts make for a clearer mind,
clean must be every creature, in kind,
over every forest, the air is clean,
every tree has its own dream…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Chiedere spiegazioni equivale a cercar grane. Sotto questo aspetto il paese non cambierà mai: da straniero è meglio se non t’impicci di come vanno le cose.”
Source: De gloed van Sint-Petersburg
“Chiedi al Bunkerjakob
che controllava tutto
Come fai a resistere
Lui disse
Sia lode a quanto
rende duri
Io sto bene
mangio le razioni
di quelli là dentro
La loro morte non mi tocca
Tutto questo mi tocca
quanto può toccarmi
la pietra di questo muro”
Source: The Investigation
“Chiedo scusa alle grandi domande per le piccole risposte che ho dato.”
“Chief aim is change.”
“Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.”
“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.”
“Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.”
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only does the chief won't feel any uncertainty on Anthony and I, but the spirits of the victims can move on. It sounds silly to believe that the undead is still around, but it is the truth. And since I have a good heart, I must use it.”
Source: The White Sirens
“Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.”
“Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.”
“Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.”
“Chief Keef makes me proud that there are other young niggas out there who are about that code.”
“Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.”
“Chief McNeil: "as a cop, you will meet a great many people. You will help a lot of them and you will hurt a few of them, too. The ones you meet, you’ll treat with respect. The ones you help, you’ll hope will be deserving of it. And the ones you hurt will surely have it coming. Just don’t give them any extra lumps and you’ll do just fine.”
Source: Lost In Paradise: The Rick Edwards File
“Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?”
“Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England
“Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson
“Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.”
“Chigurh took a twenty-five cent piece from his pocket and flipped it spinning into the bluish glare of the fluorescent lights overhead. He caught it and slapped it onto
the back of his forearm just above the bloody
wrappings.
Call it, he said.
Call it? Yes. For what?
Just call it.
Well I need to know what it is we're callin here.
How would that change anything?
The man looked at Chigurh's eyes for the first time. Blue as lapis. At once glistening and totally opaque. Like wet stones.
You need to call it, Chigurh said. I cant call it for you. It wouldnt be fair. It wouldnt even be right. Just call it.
I didnt put nothin up.
Yes you did. You've been putting it up your whole life. You just didnt know it. You know what the date is on this coin?
No.
It's nineteen fifty-eight. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And I'm here. And I've got my hand over it. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.”
Source: No Country for Old Men