Cormac Mccarthy Blood Meridian Quotes & Sayings

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid. — Barbara Broccoli

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. — I.L. Peretz

You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored. — Jasinda Wilder

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself. — John Requa

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray. — Alfred Jodl

In the provinces, being queer is worse than being Arab. — Laurent Binet

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever. — Angela Johnson

There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse. — Cormac McCarthy

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow. — Albert Gubay

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. — Karl Philipp Moritz

The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops. — Cormac McCarthy

The following evening as they rode up onto the western rim they lost one of the mules. It went skittering off down the canyon wall with the contents of the panniers exploding soundlessly in the hot dry air and it fell through sunlight and through shade, turning in that lonely void until it fell from sight into a sink of cold blue space that absolved it forever of memory in the mind of any living thing that was. — Cormac McCarthy

I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support. — Mark Hoppus

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god. — Cormac McCarthy

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood. — Jonathan Swift

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages. — Israel Gelfand