Top 78 Carrington's Quotes
#1. I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
Leonora Carrington
#2. IT'S NOT RACIST
TO BE PROUD
OF YOUR COUNTRY!'
no, but it is fucking
stupid
to think it makes
you a better man.
Andy Carrington
#3. I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.
Leonora Carrington
#4. I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower.
Leonora Carrington
#5. Legendary manners there, Karim," she commented, her voice calm. "Your mother teach you?"
"I was taught the advantage of surprise," he responded as he walked over to her massive desk.
Katherine McIntyre
#6. Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds
Leonora Carrington
#7. Jackson's presence in New York had everything to do with the other Carrington sister.
He'd been keeping his distance. He'd had to. But today he didn't want to. He wanted to see her. Needed to see her.
He needed Mollie.
Lauren Layne
#8. A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
Leonora Carrington
#9. If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'
Rodney Carrington
#10. We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
Leonora Carrington
#11. People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
Leonora Carrington
#12. If we continue to surround ourselves with all of the world's fakeness, will we eventually not know when something or someone real appears?
Kathryn S. Carrington
#13. With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, 'to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.' These words are in every heart in the mating season.
Leonora Carrington
#14. It's my blood I carry. My soul I carry. My body. None of it belongs you to you, I said, striking my hand out and watching her do the same.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#15. Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
Leonora Carrington
#16. Why am I so weird all the time? Then again, having conversations with myself in my head doesn't help.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#18. So many likes and retweets for having the "GUTS"
to say what every-
one thinks
ON
THE
FUCKING
INTER-
NET
(but never in the street).
Andy Carrington
#19. I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace?
Leonora Carrington
#21. I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.
Leonora Carrington
#22. Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.
Tori Carrington
#23. I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#24. Show them to me
Show them to me
Unclasp your bra and
set those puppies free
Rodney Carrington
#25. I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
Rodney Carrington
#26. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
Leonora Carrington
#27. Some old traits never die, isn't that right Kurt?"
"And some are easily fixed with death. It was you who always taught me that," Kurt said ruthlessly.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#28. ... The Antichrists are antichristing each other with antichristly ferocity so I must go and make peace.
Leonora Carrington
#29. The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.
Leonora Carrington
#30. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
Leonora Carrington
#31. I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.
Joan Collins
#32. I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all.
Leonora Carrington
#33. Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.
Leonora Carrington
#34. There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself.
Leonora Carrington
#35. Lust starts with chemistry. Love starts with trust and respect.
Marian Lanouette
#36. Just so you know
I'd be much less calmer
if you took your patronising Capitalist
ramble
off the face of the Earth
and remember to leave me the fuck
alone
when I'm listening to the Upstarts.
Andy Carrington
#37. Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame, read Georgina, cackling with mirth.
Leonora Carrington
#38. For now, I must fight to live, no matter what kind of life that might be. I must always fight.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#40. Don't follow the path of writers:
the path stinks / you never get paid
drinking / sleeping tablets only make the head worse
and I'm forever getting pissy
with every-
one.
Andy Carrington
#41. Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?
Leonora Carrington
#42. What I'm saying is that preachers are like politicians. They choose what sin or crime they want to fight and they get their people riled up to do the same, making hate and fear. That hate and fear mask other things they should be concentrating on and it keeps people separate.
Rain Carrington
#44. In truth we do not know how long we may have on this plain. Perhaps we shouldn't damn ourselves with reservation and instead truly accept what is most attractive to our hearts.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#45. I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#46. A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.
Marcia Carrington
#48. Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee.
Katherine McIntyre
#49. Do not give up hope entirely in spite of the horror of your situation. I am mobilising all my mental capacities to obtain your unconditional freedom.
Leonora Carrington
#50. [At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.
Leonora Carrington
#52. You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
Rodney Carrington
#54. I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.
Rodney Carrington
#55. Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.
That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.
And your body has been cursed with it.
Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades
Kia Carrington-Russell
#56. Interestingly, Marxism, Communism and its derivative, Socialism, when seen years later in practice, are nothing but state-capitalism and rule by a privileged minority, exercising despotic and total control over a majority which is left with virtually no property or legal rights.
Andrew Carrington Hitchcock
#57. I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.
Rodney Carrington
#58. Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.
Leonora Carrington
#60. Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.
Leonora Carrington
#61. Ultimately, I could probably be anything I want or maybe anyone I want. But I have never tried turning into another because I am too damn perfect already.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#62. Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.
Rodney Carrington
#63. Pancakes! I jumped from my bed excitedly and jogged to the kitchen: my quick morning run.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#64. You are fabulous; it is only your realization of that which will truly give you peace.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#65. There are three things you need to learn in life, Sofie. First, how to dance like you're alone. Second, to love like you mean it. And, third, you need to learn to laugh at the rain. Learn how to do those three things, and you'll be happy, always.
Tori Carrington
#67. Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.
Jeff VanderMeer
#68. You may have been lost in a dark world but it is up to you to shine a light so bright you can see properly.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#69. I didn't have time to be anyone's muse ... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
Leonora Carrington
#70. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
Leonora Carrington
#71. I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.
Leonora Carrington
#72. Someday, Mollie Carrington, men aren't going to need to be bribed to dance with you. They're going to fight for the honor.
Lauren Layne
#73. Can't take no pride in that flagpole
and you can stick your fucking STARBUCKS
up your tight middle-
class
arseholes.
Andy Carrington
#74. When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.
Andy Carrington
#75. Virginia returned home, followed by the cats. There, in the kitchen, she gave birth to seven little boars. Out of sentiment she kept the one most like Igname, and boiled the others for herself and the cats, as a funeral feast.
Leonora Carrington
#76. Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#77. I will protect him until I know he is safe and then I will have to leave him behind. I cannot be so selfish as to try to drag him into this war because of my own pain and suffering.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#78. The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible.
Leonora Carrington
