My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on...
CARL HIAASEN The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
CARL HIAASEN From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being pr...
CARL HIAASEN There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
CARL HIAASEN Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. ...
CARL HIAASEN It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
CARL HIAASEN I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New...
CARL HIAASEN Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and tha...
CARL HIAASEN My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say...
CARL HIAASEN To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world ...
CARL HIAASEN I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked o...
CARL HIAASEN If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about....
CARL HIAASEN Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
CARL HIAASEN When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch yo...
CARL HIAASEN I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news j...
CARL HIAASEN We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who r...
CARL HIAASEN Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw ...
CARL HIAASEN One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
CARL HIAASEN You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don&#...
CARL HIAASEN I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my w...
CARL HIAASEN The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the cur...
CARL HIAASEN Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world...
CARL HIAASEN My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
CARL HIAASEN I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book se...
CARL HIAASEN Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels&#...
CARL HIAASEN The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in t...
CARL HIAASEN I wait for the headlines to inspire me.
CARL HIAASEN I always try to burden even the villains with some weird predilection they have to cope with. It hel...
CARL HIAASEN I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me -- not if they've read...
CARL HIAASEN They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong, ... it disappears when they walk out the door with...
CARL HIAASEN I think once they get into it and read it, they'll plug right in to it, ... It's not fiction. It's t...
CARL HIAASEN Fallen-tree video is absolutely essential to hurricane broadcasts. The most sought-after footage is,...
CARL HIAASEN I have this pet peeve which is when I read a novel I don't want to hit page 200 and have to go back ...
CARL HIAASEN Welcome to the exciting world of hurricane journalism! While your highly paid colleagues on the anch...
CARL HIAASEN It just gets kinda creepy, it's so orderly and efficient and insulated from the real world,
CARL HIAASEN Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of di...
CARL HIAASEN When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher...
CARL HIAASEN Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.
CARL HIAASEN Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip t...
CARL HIAASEN Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little ...
CARL HIAASEN Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour un...
CARL HIAASEN I am still a little awestruck,
CARL HIAASEN The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt t...
CARL HIAASEN These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind...
CARL HIAASEN I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actua...
CARL HIAASEN Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thun...
CARL HIAASEN When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been rev...
CARL HIAASEN When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I bre...
CARL HIAASEN Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name...
CARL HIAASEN The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
CARL HIAASEN There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that&...
CARL HIAASEN Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
CARL HIAASEN Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always chang...
CARL HIAASEN I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
CARL HIAASEN As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I...
CARL HIAASEN People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?'...
CARL HIAASEN Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my...
CARL HIAASEN They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with the...
CARL HIAASEN Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margi...
CARL HIAASEN My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
CARL HIAASEN My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in...
CARL HIAASEN I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
CARL HIAASEN The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time try...
CARL HIAASEN All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an elemen...
CARL HIAASEN The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
CARL HIAASEN I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particular...
CARL HIAASEN There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation...
CARL SAGAN But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...
CARL SAGAN Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about ...
CARL SANDBURG I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ...
CARL SANDBURG In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to sav...
CARL SAGAN Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there&#...
CARL SAGAN A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
CARL REINER Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...
CARL JUNG The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL JUNG The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for...
CARL JUNG Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far ...
CARL JUNG I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
CARL JUNG The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
CARL JUNG We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL JUNG In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I co...
CARL JUNG Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL JUNG Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
CARL JUNG Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL JUNG Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
CARL JUNG Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL JUNG When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
CARL JUNG A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered...
CARL JUNG Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL JUNG Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL JUNG Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL JUNG There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
CARL JUNG There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
CARL JUNG Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
CARL JUNG In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL JUNG The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
CARL JUNG A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
CARL JUNG Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...
CARL JUNG Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...
CARL JUNG Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
CARL JUNG The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most h...
CARL JUNG Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...
CARL JUNG If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...
CARL JUNG Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
CARL JUNG Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make th...
CARL JUNG The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ...
CARL JUNG Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his ind...
CARL JUNG Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
CARL JUNG Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
CARL JUNG A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
CARL JUNG Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
CARL JUNG It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
CARL JUNG A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible dis...
CARL JUNG The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL JUNG The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGAN The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a conte...
CARL BERNSTEIN Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGAN There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow i...
CARL SANDBURG I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected the...
CARL SANDBURG If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if ...
CARL SANDBURG I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the ...
CARL SANDBURG The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
CARL SANDBURG Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me workI am the grass; I ...
CARL SANDBURG Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come.
CARL SANDBURG Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why ...
CARL SANDBURG Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as...
CARL SANDBURG A baby is Gods opinion that life should go on.
CARL SANDBURG The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sens...
CARL SCHURZ Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you wi...
CARL SCHURZ The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easil...
CARL JUNG Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. Th...
CARL JUNG Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL JUNG Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their child...
CARL JUNG God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all th...
CARL JUNG Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They h...
CARL JUNG Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who ...
CARL JUNG The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, o...
CARL JUNG The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
CARL JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
CARL JUNG Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
CARL JUNG I do not believe...I know.
CARL JUNG Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you w...
CARL SCHURZ The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to...
CARL SCHURZ Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
CARL SCHURZ Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafarin...
CARL SCHURZ I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
CARL SANDBURG I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking o...
CARL LEWIS Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are th...
CARL SANDBURG I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
CARL SANDBERG If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGAN It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected fi...
CARL SAGAN Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires int...
CARL SAGAN Imagine that I am riding a bicycle toward you. As I approach an intersection I nearly collide, so it...
CARL SAGAN A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science...
CARL SAGAN We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute...
CARL KARCHER Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...
CARL SAGAN Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ...
CARL SAGAN The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
CARL SAGAN The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pi...
CARL SAGAN Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...
CARL SAGAN The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
CARL SANDBURG Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remo...
CARL ORFF Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
CARL ROWAN The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
CARL SANDBURG A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called
CARL SAGAN I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn&#...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where t...
CARL WILSON Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than...
CARL WILSON In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
CARL WILSON I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Me...
CARL WILSON I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
CARL WILSON I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leade...
CARL WEATHERS When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's real...
CARL WEATHERS My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ...
CARL WEATHERS I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of ...
CARL WEATHERS I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywo...
CARL WEATHERS I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences w...
CARL WEATHERS What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation c...
CARL STOKES My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won&...
CARL STOKES All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pul...
CARL SANDBURG I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
CARL SANDBURG I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
CARL SANDBURG Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
CARL SANDBURG Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
CARL SANDBURG Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
CARL SANDBURG A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awak...
CARL SANDBURG I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of...
CARL SANDBURG To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
CARL SANDBURG Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBURG If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than &#...
CARL SAFINA