Carter James Quotes

#1. I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

James Sellars

#2. So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.

Ernessa T. Carter

#3. The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Igor Stravinsky

#4. I'm too sexy for a grocery store. John Carter Quinn

Leigh James

#5. We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

Christian De Portzamparc

#6. I recently had sex with someone who might've ruined me for all others.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#7. Language, which he had learnt from his mother. The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst

Hans Christian Andersen

#8. John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Carter Burwell

#9. Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

Carter F. Smith

#10. You being here today and seeing me like this didn't happen."
"It never does ...

Whitney Gracia Williams

#11. It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.

Angela Carter

#12. Really, though? Have I ever told you how deep you are?"
"No." He smiled as he got out of the car. "But that's only because you and I have never fucked ...

Whitney Gracia Williams

#13. Don't let them win. Fight with everything that's in you.

Anne Bishop

#14. Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

James Sallis

#15. You were thinking you had a chance to do what you always do," said James with kindness I didn't deserve. "You were going to give yourself up in order to save the people you love. It's a bit of a problem with you, you know.

Aimee Carter

#16. James chuckled. "You're the worst goddess I've ever met."
"Calliope's the worst goddess you've ever met. I'm just the most incompetent.

Aimee Carter

#17. I almost forgot how gorgeous Adonis is," she [Ava] said, "We should have made him one of us."
She [Ava] wouldn't have gotten any argument out of me, but a strange sound escaped from James, almost like he was growling. "And have to endure another narcissistic blond running around? No, thank you.

Aimee Carter

#18. Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#19. we saw a man walking in our midst who would have made James Bond feel insecure. Indiana Jones would have looked like a momma's boy compared to the man in the leather jacket with two days' growth of beard who walked to where my mother stood and then - horror of horrors - winked at her.

Ally Carter

#20. I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#22. Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Samuel Beckett

#23. But on some days I will write a post and it does not get as manny Notes as the post I wrote the day before, and I will walk home and think nervously about it, like, "Am I out of good ideas?

David Shapiro

#24. And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Jim Butcher

#25. Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

Ally Carter

#26. What's wrong with my place?"
"I would answer that, but it never happened ...

Whitney Gracia Williams

#27. James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

Deana Carter

#28. In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

Alan Parsons

#29. since I know for a fact that her class had been in the physics labs when Mr. Fibs got attacked by the bees he thought he'd genetically modified to obey commands from a whistle. (Turns out they only respond to the voice of James Earl Jones.)

Ally Carter