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Cormac McCarthy9 quotes
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy · 2005Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy · 1992Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985All 9 quotes →Adolph S. Ochs1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Grantland Rice1 quote
For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. — Grantland Rice · 1941Henry R. "Red" Sanders1 quote
Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing. — Henry R. "Red" Sanders · 1948Howard H. Baker, Jr.1 quote
What did the president know and when did he know it? — Howard H. Baker, Jr. · 1973Joseph Wood Krutch1 quote
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman. — Joseph Wood Krutch · 1956Julius Lester1 quote
To be a slave was to be a human being under conditions in which that humanity was denied. They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was slavery. — Julius Lester · 1968Justin Timberlake1 quote
I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable. — Justin Timberlake · 2004Randall Jarrell1 quote
In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." — Randall Jarrell · 1948Robert Johnson1 quote
I went to the crossroad,
fell down on my knees.
Asked the Lord above,
"Have mercy, save poor Bob if you please." — Robert Johnson · 1937Tallulah Bankhead1 quote
Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. — Tallulah Bankhead · 1952