#ace

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#aristocracy #came #century #character #directed

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#although #experience #fascinating #generations #human

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#flight #fly #having #like #opportunity

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#been #built #capabilities #carried #ever

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#comes #could #diagnosed #genius #graces

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#because #body #cannot #conscious mind #cult thing

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better. ↗

— James Cronin

#companionship #consequence #day #days #encouragement

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man. ↗

— George Crook

#against #behaves #demonstrates #him #himself

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#aesthetic #besides #comes #elements #fall