Top 96 Carman Quotes
#1. Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. - Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)
Jeanette Lynes
#2. Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
Patrick Carman
#3. My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Patrick Carman
#4. It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.
Patrick Carman
#5. If you're wondering where the Lord is at this very hour, I tell you He's alive and well with resurrection power!
Carman
#6. Find love, for love in a broken world will comfort you. Hold on to hope; it will sustain you. Have faith, for in the end it will save you.
Patrick Carman
#7. There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
Bliss Carman
#8. For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Patrick Carman
#9. Wars are lost by thinking the impossible won't happen.
Patrick Carman
#10. 'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
Patrick Carman
#11. On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled ...
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world.
Bliss Carman
#12. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
Bliss Carman
#13. Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
Patrick Carman
#15. I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.
Patrick Carman
#16. I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
Patrick Carman
#17. I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
Patrick Carman
#18. There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.
Patrick Carman
#19. I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me?
Patrick Carman
#20. Let's assume for a moment that you, Oh, do not choose God. Does this prevent Him from choosing you? I conclude, from these many verses, that it does not. Either He saves everyone or He saves no one.
Patrick Carman
#21. Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
Bliss Carman
#23. He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is.
Patrick Carman
#24. There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carman
#25. He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
George Carman
#26. The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside.
Patrick Carman
#27. They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
Patrick Carman
#28. I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.
Patrick Carman
#29. Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.
George Carman
#30. Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!'
Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!'
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Patrick Carman
#31. There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.
Patrick Carman
#32. There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.
William Bliss
#33. Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.
Patrick Carman
#34. He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir Alistair stopped and looked back, looking with affection at Marco, Yipes, and me. "We all play our part. Some roles just dray on a little more than others.
Patrick Carman
#35. It's never too late to stop believing a lie," said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and you have both.
Patrick Carman
#37. Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
Patrick Carman
#38. Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!
Carman
#39. There's a hell all right. It's just not where people say it is ... It's here. It's life, or it's what we turn life into, I guess. It's like we have to pass through all this painful stuff to get to where we're supposed to be, on the other side.
Patrick Carman
#40. Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing
George Carman
#42. You are indestructible .J
For some reason I felt light-headed when I finished writing and looked up at her, like I'd stood up too fast or the oxygen had left my brain. Oh pulled her arm back, looked thoughtfully at the words, and replied, It's upside down, but I like it. You done good, Jacob.
Patrick Carman
#43. There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
Patrick Carman
#44. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
#45. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman
#46. Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
Patrick Carman
#47. No matter how many times the world had attempted to show me how special I was, I had always remained sure that it was all a hoax, that I really wasn't special after all. That I had nothing to offer.
Patrick Carman
#48. I heard the spring light whisper
Above the dancing stream,
The world is made forever
in likeness of a dream.
Bliss Carman
#49. I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.
Bliss Carman
#50. THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood -
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
Bliss Carman
#51. The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
#52. Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
George Carman
#53. I have failed, and failed, and failed again,' he said. 'But no amount of failure can move Elyon's hand of affection away from me. It's inescapable. To live boldly for that kind of love is the least I can do.
Patrick Carman
#54. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.
Patrick Carman
#55. I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
#56. I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
Patrick Carman
#58. We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.
Patrick Carman
#59. Did I mention you're going to have to drive on our date?" I asked.
"Cheap bastard.
Patrick Carman
#60. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.
Patrick Carman
#61. Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.
Patrick Carman
#62. Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Bliss Carman
#63. Friends can feel such things in times of peril, as if a long, thin string holds them carefully together, tugging at one another through the open space of a dangerous world. The
Patrick Carman
#64. But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.
Patrick Carman
#65. Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
Bliss Carman
#66. There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)
Patrick Carman
#67. Physically, mentally, emotionally
it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.
Patrick Carman
#68. If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.
Patrick Carman
#69. I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three.
I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one.
I met a girl, and she changed everything.
Patrick Carman
#71. It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
Bliss Carman
#72. Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
George Carman
#73. My world has always been so small, hidden behind walls.
Patrick Carman
#74. After allthe events of the previous summer he was more prtective then ever,and i whanted to be sure i knew the rules i'd be likely to break once we arrived in bridewell.
Patrick Carman
#75. If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.
Patrick Carman
#76. Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
Bliss Carman
#77. The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view
Patrick Carman
#78. There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman
#79. I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops ... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
Patrick Carman
#80. When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
Patrick Carman
#81. I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
Patrick Carman
#82. Humans are the killers of magic, you see.....People can be cruel, unkind, mean, selfish. We can be a great many dreadful thing, and at one time or another we are all guilty of bad behavior. What we fail to realize is that we are the only ones who can do such things.
Patrick Carman
#83. Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.
Bliss Carman
#84. Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.
Patrick Carman
#85. Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Bliss Carman
#86. As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.
Patrick Carman
#87. Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!
Bliss Carman
#88. In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.
Patrick Carman
#89. He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general.
"It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".
Patrick Carman
#90. The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear ... he catches up.
Patrick Carman
#91. You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?
Patrick Carman
#92. But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
Patrick Carman
#93. I kind of felt like he carried his whole self around with him. When he was with me, he was really with me.
Patrick Carman
#94. She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.
Patrick Carman
#95. Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
Glad of the sun and rain,
Upright, serene, humane,
Contented with the fortune of a day.
Bliss Carman
#96. Sound of snipping growing softer outside the window, Leo
Patrick Carman
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