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I have never seen the film, but by all accounts, it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it’s terrific.
Michael Caineborn 1933On Jaws: The Revenge (1987); interview in Cosmopolitan, cited in The Salina Journal (4 December 1994), p. 16
- Comedy
- Movies
Poetry is like time travel, and poems take us to the heart of the matter.
Queen Camillaborn 1947First World War centenary: the war poem that moves the Duchess of Cornwall to tears The Daily Telegraph (28 June 2014)
- Poetry
The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.
Bruce Campbellborn 1958
- Movies
Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
- Writing
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
Albert Camus1913–1960Absurd Creation
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881The Opera (1852).
- Music
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sir Walter Scott (1838)
- Poetry
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Burns (1828).
- Love
- Poetry
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
- Poetry
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas⁠—only I don’t exactly know what they are!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Ideas
- Poetry
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes⁠—and ships⁠—and sealing-wax⁠—
Of cabbages⁠—and kings⁠—
And why the sea is boiling hot⁠—
And whether pigs have wings.’
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IVIn context
- Poetry
- Talking
Ever drifting down the stream⁠—
Lingering in the golden gleam⁠—
Life, what is it but a dream?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter XIIIn context
- Life & Death
- Poetry
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952)
- Poetry
- Writing
It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, ‘We’ll let you know.’
JCJohn Cassavetes
- Money
- Movies