Ciaran Carson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.
-- Ciaran Carson

#Wall #Eye #Rocks
Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.
-- Ciaran Carson

#Mark #Question Mark
There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.
-- Ciaran Carson

#Roles #Language
How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say whatâ€™s in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, itâ€™s wrong, isnâ€™t it?
-- Ciaran Carson

#Mind #The End Of The Day #Ends

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

Ciaran Carson famous quotes

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