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C - Celebrity Quotes - C

James Calvert

"Critical awareness involves the ability to distinguish between personal taste and artistic merit."

Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop, Brazil.

"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why are they poor, they called me a communist."

Albert Camus

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

Al Capone

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."

Johnny Carson

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."

Judy Carter

"It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents."

Lillian Carter

"Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."

Matt Cartmill

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

Anton Chekhov

"Any idiot can handle a crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."

G. K. Chesterton

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

Agatha Christie

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Sir Winston Churchill

John Ciardi

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."

Arthur C. Clarke

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."

Brian Clough

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one."

Joan Collins

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer"

James Bryant Conant

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it"

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Rich Cook

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Alistair Cooke

"A professional is one who can do his best when he doesn’t particularly feel like it."

Quentin Crisp

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

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper."