Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlton Cuse

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

Carlos Slim

The biggest things in life are not materials.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

Carlos Santana

I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Camilla Luddington

I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.

Camilla Belle

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

Campbell Scott

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

Campbell Scott

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Camille Paglia

Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

Camille Paglia

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

Camille Paglia

The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

Caitlin Rose

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.

Caitlin Moran

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

Caitlin Moran

I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more.

Caitlin Moran

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

Caitlin Moran

I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58.

Caitlin Moran

Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

C. L. R. James

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

Bryan Batt

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.