Caryl Quotes & Sayings

You can't win every week. — Caryl Churchill

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

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

Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do? — Caryl Churchill

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

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are ... I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now. — Caryl Churchill

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

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

I'd go without food if I could have a flower. — Caryl Churchill

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two. — Caryl Chessman

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us — Joseph Caryl

Be inspired that it is never too late to break free and attract the life you love, fulfilling your dreams and goals. — Caryl Westmore

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

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

From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my worthless home, with its small people, and I sailed against the tides of chance and history looking for a better place
for the center
where I suffered greatly and made myself into a great writer. — Caryl Phillips

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

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

My soul is not for sale. — Caryl Chessman

new day, it all came back to the fact that he did not have a relationship with God. He'd already be up, and she trembled with the thought of seeing him again. How crazy was that? As if she could just walk blissfully to an altar and say, 'I do.' He had come all that way. Said he would've followed her to the ends of the earth. Still, just as her mother before her, she couldn't. Not with a non-believer. How true that the generations repeated. Her dear sister had paid a high price for disobedience. Mary Rachel had suffered for her bad choice...though God redeemed her in the end. — Caryl McAdoo

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow. — Caryl Chessman

[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

Parties are a cruel kind of fun. — Caryl Churchill

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels. — Caryl Chessman

Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back. — Caryl Churchill

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

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

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. — Sam Shepard

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude. — Caryl Rivers

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

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

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine. — Caryl Rivers

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

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that. — Caryl Churchill

[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

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

Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not — Caryl Ann Casbon

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter. — Caryl Rivers

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

They're just the little people. Unknown all their lives and forgotten as soon as they die. If anyone talks about them, they're simply called the victim. But the killers, that's something else! They don't work or pay taxes or obey the law or live quiet lives of frustration. That's not news. Instead they kill. That makes them special. Charles Manson will be remembered and written about a hundred years from now, just as Jack the Ripper is remembered a hundred years after his crimes. Everybody wants a little recognition. More things are done for sheer recognition than for money or sex, as far as I can see. But the only ones who get it are the killers. Who knows all the names of Manson's victims? Or Jack the Ripper's victims? Or Charles Starkweather's victims? Or Caryl Chessman's victims? Who cares? They were just people. — Shane Stevens

N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use. — Caryl Parker Haskins

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age. — Caryl Rivers

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

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. — Caryl Churchill

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

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

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers

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

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

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

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit. — Caryl Churchill

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

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

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white. — Caryl Churchill

I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no. — Caryl Churchill

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places. — Caryl Rivers

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly — Joseph Caryl

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters? — Caryl Churchill

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

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

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive. — Caryl Chessman

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

Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself. — Caryl Churchill

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft. — Joseph Caryl

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

Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am. — Caryl Phillips