C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.”
“Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.”
Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston
“Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat . . . iz not my dog!”
“Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.”
“Clov: If I don't kill the rat, he'll die.
Hamm: That's right.”
Source: Endgame
“Clover City is the kind of place you leave. It's love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems enough to keep us afloat.”
Source: Dumplin'
“Clover is incapable of not nurturing. It can’t do anything but nurture. Shakyamuni is capable of not nurturing. With a poisonous thought, he is a poisonous person. With an enlightened thought, he is an enlightened person. With his great realization, he is unlikely to slip back into poisonous ways, but he could, for he is human.”
Source: The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics
“Clover['s] eyes are full of language.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.”
Source: Animal Farm
“Cloves sweetened the breath and stoppered up the bowel. A drop of musk or ambergris was likely to inspire passions by firing the lower regions. Rosamund was a little hesitant with these last two lest she unleash something beyond anyone's control. Filip had chuckled when she confessed her fears to him and threatened to advertise these when the place opened.
The varieties of what could be added were endless, as was the transformation even a small sprinkle of something like vanilla or milk could lend the dark fluid. It changed from being a little bitter to luscious.
Likewise, a few extra twists with the molinillo and the consistency altered from gritty to frothy, to smooth as silk, leaving a fine coating on the tongue and throat that could be revisited for hours after. Including a small quantity of chili made the drink hot and spicy; cinnamon made it sweet and even heady.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“Clown Around . . .
Nancy Weil of The Laugh Academy gives people she meets red clown noses and shows them how to use them. Promoting laughter as a cure for stress and negativity, she makes a positive and memorable impact and gives others permission to play.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.”
“Clowns are always creepy!”
“Clowns are made by those who made a circus out of life.”
“Clowns are respectable only in a circus.”
“Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.”
“Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.”
“Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.”
Source: JPod
“Clowns have no respect for pie.”
“Clowns make me... Think.”
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.”
“Clowns wear cape and mask, not heroes.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.”
“Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.”
“Club Hate' does not admit fine people to it's membership.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.”
“Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
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“Clubs and Bars are a real dead zone.”
“Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.”
“Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.”
“Clubs, fraternities, nations—these are the beloved barriers in the way of a workable world, these will have to surrender some of their rights and some of their ribs. A ‘fraternity’ is the antithesis of fraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. Anyone who remembers back to his fraternity days at college recalls the enthusiasts in his group, the rabid members, both young and old, who were obsessed with the mystical charm of membership in their particular order. They were usually men who were incapable of genuine brotherhood, or at least unaware of its implications. Fraternity begins when the exclusion formula is found to be distasteful. The effect of any organization of a social and brotherly nature is to strengthen rather than diminish the lines which divide people into classes; the effects of states and nations is the same, and eventually these lines will have to be softened, these powers will have to be generalized.”
Source: One Man's Meat
“Clues from chaos, sense from madness.”
Source: Troubled Blood
“Clumsy jesting is no joke.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Clunk all wound up and ready to go!”
“Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.”
Source: From Russia with Love
“Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back.”
Source: Aurorarama
“Clusters of items in the scale point to the following tendencies associated with social responsibility: greater concern for social and moral issues; disapproval of privilege and favor; emphasis on duties and self-discipline; greater conventionality; less rebelliousness; greater sense of trust and confidence in the world; greater poise, assurance, and personal security.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Clutch the cloth close to your heart,
let its creation speak its art.
Share its journeys across the land,
away from the dark horse’s hand.”
Source: Adira and the Dark Horse
“Clutching his burning body were these impossibly strong arms, thick and hard and veiny, smooth, cold, so like the stony arms of an ogre Wayne expected to hear the battle-chant of Sauron’s army of Uruk-hai all around him, and the clank and clash of iron swords, and battle cries in unintelligible tongues.”
Source: Burn the Dark
“Clutching his prize, Erik felt his face widen. She smiled back at him. Neither of them had said so much as hello yet she was looking at him with those eyes. Deep in the cathedral of his young being, Erik felt a bell toll, a peal of recognition. And for the rest of his life, he would swear, he would swear to anyone who asked, although nothing was said aloud, he heard Daisy Bianco speak to him. She said it with her eyes, he heard it clearly in his head, and it wasn’t hello.
It was, “Well, here you are.”
Here I am, he thought.
Her expression grew expansive. The green in her eyes deepened.
David cleared his throat. “Go put some shoes on, honey. Nails are all over the damn place.”
“See ya,” she said, looking at Erik. Her voice was soft, a secret meant only for his ears.
“Bye.” His mouth formed the word with barely a sound. It rose like a shimmering bubble and followed Daisy out the door.
Pointedly David retrieved his lunch. Erik surrendered it, and through the glass of the lighting booth he watched Daisy walk back down the aisle of the auditorium. Sat and watched her as the atoms in his body slowly rearranged themselves.”
“Clutching me in her arms, Mama stared at Emily. “You have a responsibility to this child.”
Source: Making Hearts
“Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.”
“Clutching the claw around his neck, Fawn pushed away the dungeon of hatred. Goodness had a great truth, too, and that was sacrifice. It was something darkness could never understand, for it was entrenched with precious treasures like love.”
Source: A Long Lost Fantasy
“Clutching these faded, fading imperfect memories to my breast, I go on writing this book with all the desperate intensity of a starving man sucking on bones.”
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life