Top 59 Caryl Quotes
#1. Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.
Sam Shepard
#2. There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.
Stephen Daldry
#3. If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
Caryl Chessman
#4. There was this cold monster inside him, this beast that was impossible to spit out. However hard he fought, however much he denied it, tried to make each morning the first rather than the last, he was waging a war he had lost in advance.
Caryl Ferey
#5. England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
Caryl Churchill
#6. A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.
Caryl Parker Haskins
#7. Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.
Caryl Rivers
#8. [On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.
Caryl Rivers
#9. NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.
Caryl Churchill
#10. A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
Caryl Chessman
#11. One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
Caryl Rivers
#12. Anything you want can come true if you cast it in the form of a "golden goal" and apply EFT-Matrix Reimprinting to get clear and activate it "in the matrix".
Caryl Westmore
#13. We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
Caryl Churchill
#14. I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.
Caryl Churchill
#15. People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
Caryl Churchill
#16. I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory.
Caryl Phillips
#17. A writer often wants to change a reader's perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
Caryl Phillips
#18. I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
Caryl Chessman
#19. The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from her ... she did not want this man to leave her alone. He was kind. And she feared the loneliness of dreaming
Caryl Phillips
#20. What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
Caryl Churchill
#21. I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.
Caryl Churchill
#23. What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Caryl Churchill
#25. Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not
Caryl Ann Casbon
#26. [Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
Caryl Churchill
#27. Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.
Caryl Churchill
#28. Be inspired that it is never too late to break free and attract the life you love, fulfilling your dreams and goals.
Caryl Westmore
#29. It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
Caryl Chessman
#30. It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.
Caryl Parker Haskins
#31. Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
Caryl Chessman
#32. The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
Caryl Chessman
#33. Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.
Caryl Rivers
#34. I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
Caryl Rivers
#35. Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back.
Caryl Churchill
#36. Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view.
Caryl Churchill
#37. What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
Caryl Rivers
#38. Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.
Caryl Phillips
#40. Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose.
Caryl Phillips
#41. Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us
Joseph Caryl
#42. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?
Caryl Churchill
#43. There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.
Caryl Churchill
#44. Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Caryl Churchill
#45. Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
Caryl Rivers
#48. You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
Caryl Churchill
#49. God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.
Joseph Caryl
#51. Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.
Caryl Churchill
#52. Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
Caryl Rivers
#54. I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.
Caryl Churchill
#55. How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?
Caryl Churchill
#56. Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
Caryl Rivers
#57. How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
Caryl Chessman
#58. So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.
Joseph Caryl
#59. Maud: Young women are never happy.
Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.
Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.
Caryl Churchill
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