Anthony J. Carson quotes

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.
-- Anthony J. Carson

#Writing #Men #People

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.
-- Anthony J. Carson

#Beach #Blonde #Wave

Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.
-- Anthony J. Carson

#Cities #Bird #Dull

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.