
Top 100 Carlisle's Quotes
#1. In my head, Carlisle's kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong.
Stephenie Meyer
#2. America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd
#5. Mr. Carlisle became brisk. "Baby," he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign ...
P.G. Wodehouse
#6. Harvard coach Bill Reid would later credit Teddy Roosevelt with saving football. But words in a rule book are one thing. Someone had to show the nation a new way to play the game. The Carlisle Indians did that.
Steve Sheinkin
#7. It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
Kitty Carlisle
#8. Lose the dress first next time. So you don't deprive me of the chance to see you naked, again.
Lisa Carlisle
#9. When we wake, it's officially Christmas Eve."
"Good. Because I have something special to give you."
She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. "Thought you just did."
He chuckled, a deep and throaty sound. "Something else.
Lisa Carlisle
#10. I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
Kitty Carlisle
#11. My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!
Bob Carlisle
#12. I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Carlisle Floyd
#13. I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
Kitty Carlisle
#14. There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
Carlisle Floyd
#15. The more time I spend with you lot, the more I wonder if you forget to shift your brains from stone," she added with a grin.
Gavin laughed. "Not our brains. Our cocks maybe.
Lisa Carlisle
#16. Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?
Kate Carlisle
#17. Bryce carried her to the bed and lowered her onto it. He crawled to her with a predatory look, leaving her no doubt she was the prey. "I promise to make you feel good.
Lisa Carlisle
#18. It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
Carlisle Floyd
#19. I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Carlisle Floyd
#20. If there are trust issues during the dating period, marriage is not going to solve it! #Tip
A.H. Carlisle III
#21. However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
Belinda Carlisle
#22. In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.
John Griffin Carlisle
#23. Another five grand on top of the twenty-five large from Carlisle. I vowed not to tell Kiddiot. Knowing him, he would definitely demand I buy him more cat toys. The
David Freed
#24. We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong, - Jesse Carlisle
Nina D'Angelo
#25. What treasures he would give for one night with her. To watch her strip off one of her vintage dresses, revealing her satin skin inch by inch just for him.
Lisa Carlisle
#26. If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
Carlisle Floyd
#27. And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.
Kitty Carlisle
#28. We've learned it's better to work together to create more possibilities for all, rather than cling to past prejudices.
Lisa Carlisle
#29. There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
Carlisle Floyd
#30. Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.
Bob Carlisle
#31. Your life is very different from mine. For one, you can transform into a wolf."
"I can," she agreed. "And you live with a vampire and gargoyle. That's not the typical human way, is it?
Lisa Carlisle
#32. The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908
J.M. Carlisle
#33. By the time you get to be my age it's like you're having breakfast every fifteen minutes.
Kitty Carlisle Hart
#35. You don't have to pose," she said. "I want to capture you as you were. Forget I'm even here."
He gave her a lopsided grin. "It's impossible not to notice you.
Lisa Carlisle
#36. What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd
#37. What did you tell me, Jesse? Sure Jake, Stephanie will do exactly what you tell her. Sure Jake, protecting her will be a piece of cake. "
Snorting in disbelief, he added, "Being at war is safer compared to this shit, and it's a hell of a lot easier than looking after your girlfriend.
Nina D'Angelo
#38. If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
Carlisle Floyd
#39. It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
Carlisle Floyd
#40. So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
Kitty Carlisle
#41. It's not your fault," Carlisle comforted me with a chuckle. "It could happen to anyone."
"Could," I repeated. "But it usually just happens to me.
Stephenie Meyer
#42. Nobody's having any babies, yet," Mason said, spreading both arms wide. Still pale after the onslaught of questions, he managed to smirk at his brothers and add, "Although I'm enjoying the practice of making them.
Lisa Carlisle
#43. I should tell you something about what happens after I play."
"What's that?"
He pulled her back into his arms. "I get excited...
Lisa Carlisle
#44. I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
Carlisle Floyd
#45. Integrity is simply doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do...not the easiest path, but the right one.
Robert S. Carlisle
#46. When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
Carlisle Floyd
#47. I've been waiting for you." His voice sizzled with hunger.
How could I respond? I've been thinking about you non-stop like a sex-crazed harlot since I left?
"I'm here.
Lisa Carlisle
#48. Oh my love, it's you that I dream of
Oh my love, since that day
Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain
Belinda Carlisle
#49. An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.
Kate Carlisle
#50. Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
Carlisle Floyd
#52. I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.
Peter Beardsley
#53. She tore her eyes from his abs and gave in to the temptation to look further down. Over his kilt her eyes wandered and stopped, speculating on the promising bulge beneath the blue tartan.
"Hope you like what you see...
Lisa Carlisle
#54. The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
Carlisle Floyd
#55. I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.
Carlisle Floyd
#56. I needed another sibling the way I needed a sixth toe. Or a twelfth toe. You know, an extra one on each foot. Never mind.
Kate Carlisle
#57. I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
Carlisle Floyd
#58. What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.
Peter Facinelli
#59. TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
Kitty Carlisle
#60. She wore leopard-skin leggings, a tight black turtleneck sweater and sparkly red heels. I don't make this stuff up.
Kate Carlisle
#61. There's a word for this in English," he mused, still soft. "I can't recall it. I've made you a ... a fallen women. Yes?"
"Yes," I agreed, still smiling. "Thank you ever so much."
"It's been entirely my pleasure," he said in Romanian, and I turned my face into his sleeve and began to laugh.
Shana Abe
#62. Oh, is that all you're looking forward to - a break from your studies?" He peered down at her with a knowing smirk.
Lisa Carlisle
#63. He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created"
-Carlisle
David Morrell
#64. We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
Carlisle Floyd
#65. I hope your week gets better! If not it's almost over so no worries!
Kimberly Carlisle
#66. Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
Carlisle Floyd
#67. It was time to take what he wanted. And what he wanted was her.
Lisa Carlisle
#68. Stop trying to make an X-men out of an Ex man. If he was meant to be super he would have been, leave the past in the past and look to your future. - AHC III
A.H. Carlisle III
#69. Don't be afraid," he said. "Art is full of agony and beauty. The pen itself a sword of pleasure and pain, isn't it, my poet?
Lisa Carlisle
#70. You could inspire any man to do a number of things.
Lisa Carlisle
#71. The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
Kitty Carlisle
#72. When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression.
Bob Carlisle
#73. Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.
Lisa Carlisle
#74. If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Carlisle Floyd
#76. People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
Carlisle Floyd
#77. It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
Belinda Carlisle
#78. Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd
#79. I'm consumed with thoughts of you. Have you bewitched me?
Lisa Carlisle
#80. The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
Carlisle Floyd
#81. Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
Bob Carlisle
#82. Never allow your game to be played by someone else's rules. The game you create is the reality you wish to live and that will be the love you do or do not endure.
A.H. Carlisle III
#83. The truth echoed in her head. On the same day she met him, he had tried to kill her.
Her mate.
Lisa Carlisle
#84. People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.
Molly Looby
#85. It's a new era at the Chateau." Antoine said with a wry smile. "Never thought I'd have a wolf shifter here as a guest."
"Never thought we'd have a gargoyle rock star." Cameron nodded at Dante.
Lisa Carlisle
#86. I didn't freak out. I immediately reached around my back, pulling the gun out of my waistband leveling it at the man's face. Well, maybe that was me freaking out. Who knows?
Natalie Carlisle
#87. You don't ever love anyone more or less than another, you love them differently.
Dante Carlisle
#88. I'd be careful about watching me too closely."
"Why?" She smiled to match the sassy tone in her voice.
The smirk that had lingered on his face dropped away, replaced by a serious expression. "You might not like what you see.
Lisa Carlisle
#89. It seems that the uglier the stock, the better the return, even when the valuations are comparable.
Tobias E. Carlisle
#91. I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
Carlisle Floyd
#92. The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
Carlisle Floyd
#93. I don't know it's not really a conversation until it's a reality. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and when (Tinsley) comes back. It's a situation that we'll resolve when it comes time to resolve it.
Rick Carlisle
#94. Cameron's mind registered what the rest of him already knew. He was insane about this woman, and he'd do anything to be with her, anything to protect her. She'd become his world. How it had happened, he didn't know, but it had.
Lisa Carlisle
#95. It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Carlisle Floyd
#96. Well, that was embarrassing. There was nothing wrong with talking to the voices in my head
unless everyone else was listening in.
Kate Carlisle
#97. What in bloody hell is going on back there?" Angus boomed. "Some kind of cross-species orgy!
Lisa Carlisle
#98. When you live among piranhas, you find truth and goodness an asset.
Lisa Carlisle
#99. I'm sorry, darling, but it's the only face I've got.
Kate Carlisle
#100. She pushed his massive chest, which was as effective as if she pushed granite. "What are you made of, bloody stone?"
He chuckled, eyes full of mirth. "Sometimes.
Lisa Carlisle
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