C Quotes
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“Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.”
“Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.”
“Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.”
“Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.”
“Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.”
“Claude puede ser amable y bueno, y eso no puedes serlo tú, con toda tu política y tus aires de sabio. Con todo lo que he hecho siempre por ti, lo único que tú haces es tratarme a patadas. Quiero que alguien me trate bien antes de morir. Lo aprendiste todo, Ignatius, todo, salvo cómo debe comportarse un ser humano.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.”
“Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.”
“Claude was a sensitive soul; I couldn't say what I thought to him.
My thoughts were spiky with barbs of ugliness. I recognized the darkness in them but could say nothing about it to any of my family members.”
Source: From Out of Feldspar
“Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“CLAUDIA: I love you as high as the sky and as deep as the sea.
MICHAEL: Multiply my love by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how much I feel for you. I love you more.”
Source: Crossroads
“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.”
“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.”
“Claudia was either unaware of her expression, or didn't care that he knew of her interest in his nakedness. Once he had hoped to find a mistress who would look at him with such undisguised longing.
He had never dared hope to find lust in a wife. The perfect woman sat before him, and she was his. Life was very good indeed. He propped his hands behind his head. "I am at your mercy, my lady. Do with me as you will."
"You wish to be ravished, Baron?"
"‘Tis my fondest desire.”
Source: Betrothed
“Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.”
“Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.”
“Claudicar de manera silenciosa en algún punto del camino, lo convirtió en alguien más flexible con el que se podía pasar un rato agradable. Aunque también podría deberse a no estar encadenado a ningún secreto, poder expresar, mostrar su naturaleza verdadera, al menos, con Alyssa. Las libertades solían opacar el deseo insano de perseguir obsesiones.”
Source: Aliento de dragón
“Claudie wrinkled her nose. 'I don't think anyone would buy a ticket to see me perform,' she said.
Selma laughed. 'What do you mean?' she asked. 'You have a lovely voice.'
'Not like yours,' Claudie said.
'It doesn't have to be like mine to be lovely,' Selma said. 'It's lovely because it's yours.”
Source: Meet Claudie
“Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.”
“Claustrophobia and loud music – two of her favourite fears”
Source: Don't Think a Single Thought
“Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“Claws grabbed his head from behind, curving round his face, serrated talons gouging into his eyes”
Source: The Village Witch
“Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'”
“Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.”
“Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.”
“Clay Cooper had seen a dragon roused in anger. He'd faced down a legion of shrieking grimlocks and matched gazes with the cold fury of undead kings. Despite all this, asking Ginny to marry him had been the most harrowing moment of his life.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city magazines that covered the city and gave all kinds of advice and all that sort of stuff. And there were copies all over the country by the time he left. He had, however, a view of journalism that was very much, I must say, like Tina Brown's at The New Yorker. You hit 'em hard, fast, give 'em something to talk about the day after the paper comes out, as contrasted with William Shawn, who gave them something to talk about two or three years from then.”
“Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!”
“Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.”
“Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.”
“Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.”
“Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.”
“Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.”
“Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.”
“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's aware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.”
“Clay pushed his body off him and mumbled another apology - because, enemy or not, when you hit a man in the nuts with a magic hammer the least you could say was sorry.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“Clay shaped into a cup was not always destined to become a drinking vessel; it was simply shaped by someone too large to be resisted. She was not clay, but she had been shaped by her circumstances all the same, not directed by any destiny”
Source: Across the Green Grass Fields
“Clay smashed the butt of his revolver into the werewolf’s snout. It laughed again, only it wasn’t the sound of an animal trying to form human words, but a familiar cackle that chilled Clay to his bones.
Intelligence cooled in black eyes, snuffing out the feral rage that had once burned brightly. Jaw muscles moved mechanically, strings pulled from an unseen place. “Hello, McNab,” the voice of a woman crooned. “It’s good to see you. Everything has become so much more interesting. Who will you fail this time, I wonder?”
The werewolf dropped with a thud, wisps of gun smoke rising from its head. Clay stood over it and drove his boot into the face again and again. He didn’t stop until the body was mangled beyond recognition, a sponge to soak up the fury flaring inside his heart.”
Source: At the Dead of Dusk
“Clay that has not gone through the fire of the kiln is useless. Fire solidifies clay. It makes clay strong and helps it retain its shape. This is how it works with clay, and this is how it works with people, too.”
Source: Identity Thief: Exposing Satan's Plan to Steal Your Purpose, Passion and Power
“Clayson had a vinous nose and a tedious habit of saying brilliant things.”
Source: The Magician
“Clayton was the book she wanted to read again and again. Beneath its handsome cover were paragraphs of thoughtfulness , sweetness, kindness, laughter, patience, trust, and all the best words to lose herself within their pages.”
Source: Finding Home
“Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for my lack of all the others." Stephen and Clayton grinned at each other, neither of them hearing the emotion that clogged her voice. "What splendid accomplishments is that, little one?" Clayton asked. Her shoulders hunched forward and began to shake. "I made you love me," she whispered brokenly. "Somehow, some way, I actually made you love me.”
Source: Whitney, My Love
“Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church!”
Source: Elixir
“Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.”
“Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.”
“Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970
“Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.”
“Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“Clean communities, a cleaner country.”