C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.”
“Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.”
“Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!”
“Colui che ha occhi per vedere e orecchi per sentire deve convincersi che nessun mortale sa mantenere un segreto: se le sue labbra sono serrate parlerà con la punta delle dita, il suo tradirsi trasuderà da ogni poro.”
“Colui che più possiede, è colui che più ha paura di perdere.”
“Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].”
“Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real world where people often fail.”
“Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.”
“Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.”
“Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.”
“Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.”
“Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.”
“Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.”
“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.”
“Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.”
Source: A Heap o' Living'
“Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.”
Source: The Philosophy of Santayana
“Columbus gave the world another world.”
“Columbus has the standing egg, Tesla has the electromagnetic egg and Magee has the irradiated egg.”
“Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual”
“Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.”
Source: Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
“Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Columbus’s fateful voyage was inspired by his study of a map by Paolo Toscanelli. But there was also the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, which killed hundreds of people until a physician, John Snow, drew a map demonstrating that a single contaminated water pump was the source of the illness, thereby founding the science of epidemiology. There was the 1944 invasion at Normandy, which succeeded only because of the unheralded contribution of mapmakers who had stolen across the English Channel by night for months before D-Day and mapped the French beaches.* Even the moon landing was a product of mapping. In 1961, the United States Geological Survey founded a Branch of Astrogeology, which spent a decade painstakingly assembling moon maps to plan the Apollo missions. The Apollo 11 crew pored over pouches of those maps as their capsule approached the lunar surface, much as Columbus did during his voyage. It seems that the greatest achievements in human history have all been made possible by the science of cartography.”
Source: Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. It would be hard to name any figure in history who has achieved more lasting fame with less competence. He spent large parts of eight years bouncing around Caribbean islands and coastal South America convinced that he was in the heart of the Orient and that Japan and China were at the edge of every sunset. He never worked out that Cuba is an island and never once set foot on, or even suspected the existence of, the landmass to the north that everyone thinks he discovered: the United States.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.”
“Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.”
“Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.”
Source: Leepike Ridge
“Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.”
“Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.”
“Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.”
“Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.”
“Columpios apedofilados que se sienten solos buscan traseros de niños.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“com a liberdade, só os cretinos mais incautos passaram a ser má gente.”
“Com a mídia-político, os cidadãos são infantilizados, já não se engajam na vida pública, são alienados, manipulados por gadgets e imagens, a democracia é "desnaturada" e "pervertida".”
Source: The Empire of Fashion by Gilles Lipovetsky
“Com apenas as mãos e o pensamento eu restauro o tecido holográfico.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com arte e ciência eu faço ménage à trois.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com'era friabile il passato, franava di continuo, le veniva addosso.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“Com este grimório eu me conjuro dos mortos me sentenciando à vida.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com este livro eu me sentencio à vida; o suicídio que eu escolhi.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com exceção dos cristãos modernos no Brasil, o cristianismo foi imposto durante o processo de colonização. Em uma mão a Bíblia, na outra a espada. Eu não vejo como isso poderia terminar bem. A violência do cristianismo, escondido nos fiéis, é meramente a continuação dessa violência. Um estudo mostrou que pessoas que vêm de cultura onde a honra se lava com sangue, ainda assim permaneceram violentas gerações depois, mesmo fora do ambiente de origem. Ou seja, cientificamente falando, uma religião que se espalhou na espada, e no sangue, possui baixa chance de gerar uma sociedade pacífica.”
“Com filho e marido ficava caro viajar. Ser pobre cria barreira para tudo.”
Source: Cara Marfiza,
“Com literatura de integração eu domo toda e qualquer realidade.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com mais meios, mais saber, mais técnicas que nunca, o mundo atual acaba sendo o mais miserável que já houve: á deriva, nada mais.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Com més hi penso, més crec que ser jo és una forma de neurosi — bastant inconfortable, per cert.”
Source: Consells, proverbis i insolències
“Com o amor dá-se o mesmo que com o vinho. Perdoem-me as leitoras o pouco delicado da confrontação; mas bem vêem que ambos embriagam.”
Source: As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
“Com o contorno das letras eu acorrento a humanidade e seus súditos.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com o contorno das letras eu acorrento o mundo e seus habitantes.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Com o envelhecimento da população e o decréscimo da taxa de natalidade, cuidar de idosos tenderá a ser um dos setores de maior crescimento no mercado de trabalho humano.”
Source: 21 lições para o século 21
“Com o tempo, compreendi que a população negra havia sido escravizada. E não era escrava - palavra que denota que essa seria uma condição natural, ocultando que esse grupo foi colonizado ali pela ação de outrem”
Source: Pequeno Manual Antirracista
“Com os nomes eu controlo a realidade dos nomeados.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto