C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well”
“Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.”
“Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.”
“Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Craig Varjabedian’s photography captures, with arresting clarity, the ineffable whispers of time and spirit layered deep in New Mexico’s cultural landscape. Through the artful combination of his compassionate eye and technical virtuosity, he evokes the past in the present and the holy in the everyday.”
“Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.”
Source: the bride of Lammermoor
“Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.”
“Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.”
“Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.”
“Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender”
“Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
“Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they look a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere til he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.”
“Cranberry cock-tail for me, you dirty carpet-muncher.”
Source: A Ghost In New Orleans
“Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.”
“Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.”
“Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“Crankiness is a human attribute that when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.”
“Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.”
Source: A Casual Commentary
“Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires and no blood," Claire said. "Is that it?"
"No, I was thinking we're out of chips. Of course that's what I was thinking.”
Source: Feast of Fools
“Crap. Before one starts this fighting, one has to sort a few things out, such as one's bloody morality.”
“Crap....I never realized how many Star Wars books I've read until right now.”
“Crap. I was hopin’ all things ugly had been raptured, but you’re still muckin’ up the planet.”
“We must share the same faith, honey. ’Cause beauty checked out when you showed up.”
Source: Kings & Queens
“Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?”
Source: Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1
“Crape Myrtle trees line our streets. They awaken at the onset of Irans mid-day heat. They turn their leaves up, lifting their branches to give the azure Middle-Eastern sky an open-mouth kiss. Row after row blushes with red blossoms of ecstasy. Noshahr--where every hill has its own story, every valley its own poem, every girl her own heartache . . . that's for certain.”
Source: Persianality
“Crappy mall food cures everything.”
Source: Every Last Word
“Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.”
“Crash Courses are short, potent learning experiences crafted to swiftly equip learners with essential skills or knowledge.”
“Crash Courses, short and potent, swiftly equip learners with essential skills or knowledge, providing a concentrated learning experience.”
“Crash, crash, bang!”
“Crash, crash, bang, and what will the next one be?”
“Crash Holly's so short, you can see his feet on his driver's licence photo.”
“Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.”
“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.”
“Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.”
Source: Ferran's Map
“Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.”
“Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.”
“Crauwels loved this time of evening, when his duties to the crew had ended and his duties to the damned nobility had not yet begun. This was his. One hour, around dusk, to smell the air and feel the salt on his skin and find some joy in this life forced upon him.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”
“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”
“Crave for transcending or else it will become compulsive.”
“Craving a physical connection, I slide my finger along the back of Rachel’s hand. She’s asleep. Has been for a while. Curled in the fetal position in the middle of my bed, Rachel wears the mask of a ravaged person. Somehow, I missed the signs: dark circles under her eyes, the clothes that once fit perfectly now hang, her skin so pale it’s translucent.”
Source: Crash into You
“Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear”
“Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.”
Source: Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
“Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.”
Source: Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
“Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust”