Carr Quotes

#1. More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

Jimmy Carr

#2. You're very presumptuous, you know," she said, but she smiled. He smiled right back. Confident. "You're very beautiful, you know." She

Robyn Carr

#3. I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Allan Carr

#4. The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

Caleb Carr

#5. Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

Kris Carr

#6. Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

Allen Carr

#7. But you were concerned about making sure things, you know, didn't get serious."
"Yeah, because I'm an idiot.

Robyn Carr

#8. I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.

Kris Carr

#9. Cooper's been married in his head for a while now."
"That's ... kinda sweet.

Robyn Carr

#10. The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.

Robyn Carr

#11. These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that's why there are so few good ones anymore.

Lauren Carr

#12. Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels it necessary; I find it extremely offensive.

Bobby Davro

#13. Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

Eric Carr

#14. In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.

Nicholas Carr

#15. Unless you have to, never fight a battle you now you're going to lose.

Patrick W. Carr

#16. It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot,

Robyn Carr

#17. Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

Emily Carr

#18. My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian ...

Jimmy Carr

#19. I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

Jimmy Carr

#20. There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

Philippa Carr

#21. It's going to be a while before I can do that, and honestly, I don't know if I'll ever have a flat stomach again, but I don't want to focus on that, it's too depressing." Maggie Temples

S.F.M. Carr

#22. Tom, how many children do you think I have to have before I figure out you get them by having sex?"
"Of course there would be protection," he offered.
"Tons of it.

Robyn Carr

#23. Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

Gary Carr

#24. The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

Nicholas G. Carr

#25. I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

Jimmy Carr

#26. The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

James Patterson

#27. It's up to you." He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. "It's always up to you." He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.

Robyn Carr

#28. When I travel, I get lovesick. Well, they call it chlamydia.

Jimmy Carr

#29. If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

Kris Carr

#30. She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt ...

Robyn Carr

#31. You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

Howie Carr

#32. Do you agree with that About saying 'forever' and being sure? I do. Will you tell me when you think you're there? Sure. Good. June? Yes? I'm there. You go ahead and take your time.

Robyn Carr

#33. Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

Kris Carr

#34. Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that's the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK

Nicholas Carr

#35. anti-intellectual

Nicholas Carr

#36. I look at my future and all I see is you.

Mari Carr

#37. What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!

Alan Carr

#38. Joe, I think I might be clueless when it comes to love. Afraid I wouldn't know real love if it bit me in the ass." He chuckled in spite of himself. "Been there," he said. "Pretty recently, in fact." "I

Robyn Carr

#39. Tom. Tom, look at me. Has Nora agreed to marry you?"
"No, but she will because she has to.

Robyn Carr

#40. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas.

Nicholas Carr

#41. Americans, no matter what their age, spend at least eight and a half hours a day looking at a television, a computer monitor, or the screen of their mobile phone. Frequently, they use two or even all three of the devices simultaneously.

Nicholas Carr

#42. They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

Jay Carr

#43. Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Philip Carr-Gomm

#44. It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

Caleb Carr

#45. I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

Kris Carr

#46. Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She

Robyn Carr

#47. I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow ... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

Jimmy Carr

#48. For so much of my life I felt hated and judged when, ironically, it was probably because I spent so much of my time hating and judging others.

Charlene Carr

#49. Paul went to his room, gathered clean clothes and headed down the hall to the shower. He made it quick, but clean. He shaved. Then he thought, I am shaving - why? To be smooth cheeked when I pass out?

Robyn Carr

#50. I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Jimmy Carr

#51. You are amazing. A true light warrior and this world certainly needs you.

Kris Carr

#52. Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Kris Carr

#53. Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.

Forrest Carr

#54. What feels like a disaster can be your new opportunity.

Robyn Carr

#55. The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

Philip Carr-Gomm

#56. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

Edward Hallett Carr

#57. Don't make love to your problems
they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.

Robyn Carr

#58. Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

Howie Carr

#59. I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

Nicholas G. Carr

#60. I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

Kris Carr

#61. David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times,

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#62. All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

Nicholas G. Carr

#63. I didn't really want to be a comedian.

Allan Carr

#64. The hardest part of training a painter is showing him how to introduce emotion into his work,

Robyn Carr

#65. I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

Jimmy Carr

#66. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

Jay Carr

#67. Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

Allen Carr

#68. I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

Caleb Carr

#69. You're finally there, Robbie. On stage in front of huge audiences. All of your hard work has paid off. It's your time.
He didn't want any of that. As he looked at Zoey, the priorities he'd always set for himself fell away, leaving just one. One thing that mattered to him.
Her.

Mari Carr

#70. You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

Forrest Carr

#71. It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

Allan Carr

#72. You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Howie Carr

#73. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Edward Hallett Carr

#74. I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.

Geneva Carr

#75. If we think first about making sure the town is taken care of, we'll do just fine. And we do.

Robyn Carr

#76. Gillard has not had a political success all year. The media package, and how it was adopted, has destroyed any confidence I could have in her office and instincts.

Bob Carr

#77. About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.

Jack Getze

#78. It's very simple
I got smacked up the side of the head and all your bullshit fell out and some sense seeped in.

Robyn Carr

#79. My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

Jimmy Carr

#80. She shrugged."I always put in long hours. I really wanted a wife."
He leaned toward her."Jilliam, honey, The whole world wants a wife. But we're gonna have to make do ...

Robyn Carr

#81. I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

Jimmy Carr

#82. If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.

David Carr

#83. People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

Kris Carr

#84. I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.

Geneva Carr

#85. It didn't take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman ...

Robyn Carr

#86. If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Allan Carr

#87. Strong women can be so underappreciated unless you're screaming for their help.

Robyn Carr

#88. Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

Kris Carr

#89. I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

Geneva Carr

#90. The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

Terry Carr

#91. You never really know how much one small single act can change things.

Robyn Carr

#92. Until meeting you, I wasn't looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I'm kind of looking for a girlfriend.

Robyn Carr

#93. People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.

Robyn Carr

#94. Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.

Jimmy Carr

#95. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

Anjelica Huston

#96. Concordances. But here, too, the effects are different. As

Nicholas Carr

#97. Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn't be healthy.

Patrick W. Carr

#98. In his bestseller, The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argues that in the Internet age we are losing our capacity for deep thinking, reading, and conversation.

Michael S. Horton

#99. If walls could talk - scratch that, if walls could make sarcastic comments... well, things would be interesting.

Meghan Apriceno Carr

#100. I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Caleb Carr