Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornel West

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

Cornel West

The authority of science ... promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies.... Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality.... In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.

Cornel West

I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.

Cornel West

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

Cormac McCarthy

She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

Cormac McCarthy

It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

Cormac McCarthy

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Cormac McCarthy

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

Cormac McCarthy

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

Cormac McCarthy

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Colm Toibin

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Common

I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.

Common

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

Colum McCann

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Colum McCann

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

Colum McCann

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

Colum McCann

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Colum McCann

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

Colum McCann

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

Colum McCann

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Colum McCann

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Clifford D. Simak

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space

Clifford D. Simak

There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.

Clifford D. Simak

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

Cliff Martinez

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

Cliff Martinez

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

Cliff Martinez

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

Clifford Stoll

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

Cliff Richard

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

Clifford Geertz

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

Clifford Geertz

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything