#heir

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#changing #contempt #eventually #expanding #find

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#another #conform #copying #defying #how

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#faithfully #men #notice #opinions #satisfies

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#families #family #great #how #i

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#approval #board #congress #democrat #everybody

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#adopt #because #been #consternation #forum

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#bring #cinema #even #eyes #goosebumps

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#get #i #immediacy #into #lacks