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Authors: Last Names Beginning With 'C'

C. JoyBell C.
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them.
I tie no weights to my ankles.”  {blog 4/2017}

James Branch Cabell [1879-1958]
“The optimist proclaims that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist fears that this is true.”  {Issue #51}

Julius Caesar [100-44 B.C.E.]
“Experience is the teacher of all things.”  {blog 1/2011}

entertainer Sid Caesar [1922-2014]
• • “In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”  {blog 11/2015}
• • “The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.”  {blog 6/2016}

John C. Calhoun [1782-1850]
“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.” (in Senate speech, 1848)  {blog 10/2007}

Carol Cail
“If you hear any sinister background music, run like hell.”  {blog 6/2012}

movie producer John Calley
“WaterGate was nothing to what we have now.”  {Issue #47}

Calvin character in the "Calvin & Hobbes" daily cartoon [1985-95]
as drawn by cartoonist Bill Watterson
“That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.”  {blog 6/2018}

Italo Calvino [1923-85]
“The true journey implies a complete change of nutrition, a digesting of the visited country – its fauna and flora and its culture (not only
the different culinary practices and condiments but the different implements used to grind the flour or stir the pot).”  {blog 4/2016}

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara [1909-99]
“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry,
they called me a communist.”  {blog 4/2011}

Julia Cameron
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”  {blog 11/2011}

mythologist Joseph Campbell [1904-87]
• • “Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what is going on without bothering anybody with
a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”  {Issue #50}
• • “The god [that] you worship is the god [that] you deserve.”  {Issue #52}
• • “The cave [that] you fear to enter holds the treasure [that] you seek.”  {Issue #62}
• • “I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for
the experience of being alive.”  {blog 12/2007}
• • “All we want is to be completely human and in each other's company.”  {blog 9/2009}
• • “Alan Watts once asked me what spiritual practice I follow, and I responded, 'underlining books'.”  {blog 7/2022}
• • “He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.”  {blog 3/2023}
• • “The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.”  {blog 3/2023}

existentialist philosopher Albert Camus [1913-1960]
• • “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”  {Issue #2}
• • “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”
("Myth of Sisyphus")  {Issue #13}
• • “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”  {Issue #18}
• • “There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is
misfortune in not loving.” ("Return To Tipasa")  {Issue #27}
• • “Liberty is your right not to lie.”  {Issue #31}
• • “The only progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”  {Issue #52}
• • “Where there is no hope, one must invent hope.”  {Issue #57}
• • “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”  {Issue #71}
• • “Integrity needs no rules.”  {blog 10/2007}
• • “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”  {blog 2/2010}
• • “Integrity has no need of rules.”  {blog 10/2010}
• • “The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”  {blog 9/2011}
• • “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your
very existence is an act of rebellion.”  {blog 1/2012}
• • “Every act of rebelling expresses a nostalgia for innocence.”  {blog 5/2012}
• • “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”  {blog 6/2012}
• • “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”  {blog 8/2012}
• • “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”  {blog 10/2012}
• • “When the oppressed take up arms in the name of justice, they take a step toward injustice.”  {blog 7/2013}
• • “I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”  {blog 3/2014}
• • “There is no love of life without despair of life.”  {blog 11/2014}
• • “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live
if you are looking for the meaning of life.”  {blog 8/2015}
• • “Integrity needs no rules.”  {blog 9/2015}
• • “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”  {blog 4/2016}
• • “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”  {blog 4/2016}
• • “A great work of art . . . is prepared within the silence of the heart.” – in "An Absurd Reasoning" (1942)  {blog 7/2016}
• • “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”  {blog 3/2018}
• • “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard
the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”  {blog 3/2018}
• • “If the world were clear, art would not exist.” - in "Sisyphus" [1942]  {blog 11/2020}

Martha 'Calamity Jane' Cannary [1852-1903]
“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.”  {blog 3/2015}

sportswriter Jimmy Cannon [1909-73]
“Sports is the toy department of life.”  {blog 7/2011}

entertainer Eddie Cantor [1892-1964]
“It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”  {blog 8/2017}

battlefield photographer Robert Capa [1913-54]
“If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.”  {blog 1/2011}

Chicago gangster Al Capone [1899-1947]
• • “You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.”  {Issue #63}
• • “Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”  {blog 4/2015}
• • “If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.”  {blog 1/2017}

Truman Capote [1924-84]
• • “I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity,
two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”  {blog 9/2014}
• • “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”  {blog 6/2015}
• • “As long as you live, there’s always something waiting; and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do?
You can’t stop living.” - in the 1966 novel "In Cold Blood"  {blog 11/2016}

cartoonist Al Capp [1909-79]
“I've learned one thing – people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.”  {blog 11/2012}

Frank Capra [1897-1991]
• • “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”  {blog 8/2011}
• • “There are no rules in filmmaking, only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.”  {blog 9/2011}
• • “I thought drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”  {blog 9/2011}
• • “Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”  {blog 7/2012}

Alex Carey
“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy,
the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power
against democracy.” - in "Taking The Risk Out of Democracy" (1996)  {blog 8/2014}

George Carlin [1937-2008]
• • “The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.”  {blog 10/2009}
• • “I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be
accepted by the American public.”  {blog 10/2009}
• • “The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper pictures of the garbage.”  {blog 5/2010}
• • “Some people see things that are and ask Why? Some people dream of things that never were and
ask Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”  {blog 7/2011 & 7/2018}
• • “They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”  {blog 2/2012}
• • “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”  {blog 8/2015}
• • “The reason [that] I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”  {blog 4/2017 & 9/2018}
• • “Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “Don't argue with an idiot, they will just bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”  {blog 10/2017}
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910] and oft quoted by George Carlin
• • “Don't just teach your children to read . . . Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.”  {blog 5/2018}
• • “Since childhood is a time when kids prepare to be grownups, I think it makes a lot of sense to completely traumatize
your children. Gets ‘em ready for the real world.”  {blog 8/2018}
• • “Tell people [that] there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you.
Tell them [that] the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”  {blog 10/2022}
• • “Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”  {blog 1/2023}

1968 Olympic athlete Dr. John Carlos
“There is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you're out.”  {blog 6/2017}

Thomas Carlyle [1795-1881]
• • “Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”  {blog 1/2011}
• • “I don't pretend to understand the universe, it is a great deal bigger than I am.”  {blog 9/2012}
• • “Every idle moment is treason.”  {blog 9/2015}
• • “Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”  {blog 8/2017}

Andrew Carnegie [1835-1919]
• • “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”  {blog 5/2008}
• • “The man who dies . . . rich dies disgraced.”  {blog 1/2012}
• • “We accept and welcome . . . as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration
of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial,
but essential for the future progress of the race.”  {blog 4/2017}
• • “Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”  {blog 10/2017}

motivational speaker & writer Dale Carnegie [1888-1955]
• • “When dealing with people, remember [that] you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures
of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.”  {blog 11/2011}
• • “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation
is merely what others think you are.”  {blog 5/2017}  see also John R. Wooden
• • “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”  {blog 4/2018}
• • “Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day
by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today.
So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.”  {blog 11/2022}

Robert Caro
“Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power
is that power always reveals.”  {blog 1/2013}

independent filmmaker John Carpenter
“The head of my fan club lives under the Hollywood Freeway in a cardboard box.”  {blog 6/2012}

John Dickson Carr  [1906-77]
“This is business. It's the best game in the world.”  {blog 1/2011}

actor Jim Carrey
• • “Fox News is a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue.”  {blog 9/2017}
• • “You stop explaining yourself when you realize [that] people only understand from their level of perception.”  {blog 2/2019}

Leonora Carrington, OBE  [1917-2011]
“Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.”  {blog 8/2015}

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) [1832-98]
• • Mad Hatter: "Have I gone mad?" Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”  {blog 12/2015}
• • “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop.”  {blog 3/2016}
• • “If everybody minded their own business the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”- in "Alice In Wonderland"  {blog 5/2016}
• • “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”  {blog 9/2016}
• • “Actually, the best gift [that] you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures . . .”
- in the novel "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" [1865]  {blog 11/2016}

idiot Ben Carson
“Illegal immigrants caught voting should be stripped of their citizenship.” - while Secretary of Housing and Urban Development  {blog 7/2018}

Johnny Carson  [1925-2005]
“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.”  {blog 10/2012}

Rachel L. Carson  [1907-64]
• • “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.”  {blog 8/2009}
• • “Humankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery -
not of nature, but of itself.” - in 1962  {blog 5/2020}

David O. Carter
“A politician worries about the next election; a statesman about the next generation.”
( quoting James Freeman Clarke [1810-88] )  {Issue #38}

Graydon Carter
“The [Bush] administration is well on its way to being the first since Herbert Hoover's to preside over
an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office.”
(Editor's Letter in Jan 2004 Vanity Fair Magazine)  {Issue #41}

James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, Jr.
76th Governor of Georgia (USA), 1971-75; 39th U.S. President, 1977-81; winner Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
“The [N.S.A.] invasion of human rights and American privacy has gone too far . . . America has
no functioning democracy at this moment.” – in July 2013  {blog 8/2013}

• • “[T]he essence of what made America a great country [is] its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence
of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members.
So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors
for themselves after the election is over.” - on the Thom Hartmann radio show  {blog 9/2015}

• • “We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards, to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.” - during Oprah Winfrey tv interview 9/2015  {blog 10/2015}
• • “If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying [that] you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't.”  {blog 7/2017}

Matt Cartmill, PhD
“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 [that] you can meet girls.”   {blog 5/2010}

George Washington Carver  [1864-1943]
• • “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.”  {blog 2/2008}
• • “There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn't worth anything.”  {blog 2/2018}

James Carville
• • “You know back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won,
the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what?
I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true.”  {Issue #62}
• • “Washington [DC] is a dirty diaper that needs a change.”  {Issue #63}

cellist Pablo Casals  [1876-1973]
• • “You must work – we must all work – to make the world worthy of its children.”  {Issue #36}
• • “The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”  {blog 3/2008}

economist Douglas Casey
“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”  {blog 4/2011}

Rick Cass of Florida
“Patriotism may be the last refuge of scoundrels, but religion is assuredly the first.”  {blog 5/2015}

Neal Cassady  [1926-68]
“Art is good when it springs from necessity.”  {Issue #50}

John Cassavetes [1929-89]
“Life is a series of suicides, divorces, promises broken, children smashed, whatever.”
— line from movie "Love Streams" [1984]  {blog 11/2010}

John Cassidy, columnist in The New Yorker Magazine
• • “History happens only once.”  {blog 4/2010}
• • “Insulting people is one of the few things for which Trump possesses a genuine talent.”  {blog 4/2018}

sociologost Carlos Castañeda  [1925-98]
• • “All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out from time to time.
The difference between an average person and a warrior is awareness of this, and one of the tasks is to be alert, deliberately
waiting, so that when the cubic centimeter pops out [the warrior] has the necessary speed and prowess to pick it up.”  {Issue #58}
• • “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge,
and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”  {blog 10/2017}
• • “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”  {blog 12/2023}

Fidel Castro [1926-2016]
“Revolutionary justice is not based on legal precepts, but on moral conviction.”, in 1959  {blog 1/2017}

author Willa Cather  [1873-1947]
• • “There are some things [that] you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”  {Issue #68}
• • “That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.”  {blog 11/2008}
• • “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”  {blog 7/2011}
• • “Happy people do a great deal for their friends.”  {blog 7/2012}
• • “Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet and some sort of dignity.”  {blog 9/2013}
• • “Where there is great love there are always miracles.”  {blog 7/2015}
• • “Success is never so interesting as struggle – not even to the successful.”  {blog 9/2017}

Cato the Elder [234-149 B.C.E.]
“We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them.”   {blog 2/2012}

Dick Cavett
“If your parents never had children, chances are [that] you won't either.”  {blog 3/2013}

Louis-Ferdinand Céline [1894-1961]
• • “No art is possible without a dance with death.”  {Issue #34}
• • “Almost every desire [that] a poor man has is a punishable offense.”  {blog 6/2010}
• • “All great innovation is built on rejection.”  {blog 8/2011}
• • “If there is no laughter inside you, there's nothing.”  {blog 8/2017}

astronaut wife Barbara Jean Atchley Cernan
“If you think [that] going to the moon is hard, try staying at home.”  {blog 8/2013}

painter Marc Chagall [1887-1985]
“Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.”  {blog 9/2016}

Nicolas Chamfort  [1741-94]
• • “Pleasure can be based on illusion, but happiness rests on reality.”  {blog 10/2007}
• • “Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.”  {blog 6/2012}

Charlie Chan character, written by Earl Derr Biggers [1884-1933]
• • “Life is plenty good.”  {blog 10/2007}
• • “Golf, golf, golf. It's ruined more good men than whiskey.”  {blog 1/2010}

Simon Chan
“We all need reminding at times that the World Wide Web is only 27 years old.”  {blog 10/2017}

Hindu goddess Chandi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”  {blog 9/2017}

Raymond Chandler  [1888-1959]
• • “There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art,
and precious little of that.”  {Issue #18}
• • “Funny thing, civilization. It promises so much and what it delivers
is mass production of shoddy merchandise and shoddy people.”  {Issue #25}
• • “The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased
the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.”  {Issue #50}
• • “All men must escape at times from the deadly rhythm of their private thoughts.”  {blog 11/2008}
• • “A good story cannot be devised, it has to be distilled.”  {blog 12/2009}
• • “At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed,
must seem to be inevitable.”  {blog 9/2011}
• • “Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.” - in "The Big Sleep", 1939  {blog 12/2015}
• • “There is never enough good writing to go around.”  {blog 2/2017}
• • “All of us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart.”  {blog 3/2017}
• • “Hollywood is easy to hate, easy to sneer at, easy to lampoon.” - in The Atlantic Magazine in 1945  {blog 4/2024}

Coco Chanel [1883-1971]
• • “There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”  {blog 6/2011}
• • “Some people think [that] luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”  {blog 3/2013}
• • “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”  {blog 8/2014}
• • “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”  {blog 8/2015}
• • “I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”  {blog 2/2016}
• • “The best things in life are free. The second best things in life are very, very expensive.”  {blog 9/2016}
• • “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”  {blog 8/2018}

Prof. Suzanne Chapin of Boston University
“All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.”  {blog 4/2017}

Sir Charles Chaplin  [1889-1977]
• • “Life isn't a meaning but a desire.”  {Issue #71}
• • “All [that] I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”  {blog 12/2012}
• • “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “If you're looking for rainbows look up to the sky / You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down.”  {blog 8/2017}
— sung in the opening credits for "The Circus" [1928] sound re-release in 1969

Loren Chapman [1927-2017]
“The evil of FoxNews is breathtaking.”  {blog 8/2019}

Ralph Charell
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be a chess player, not the chess piece.”   {blog 5/2010}

entertainer RuPaul Charles
“Our culture is about choosing an identity and sticking with it so [that] people can market [crap] to you. Anything that switches that around
is completely the antithesis of what our culture implores us to do.”  {blog 6/2017}

labor leader César E. Chavez  [1927-93]
• • “You are never strong enough that you don't need help.”  {blog 7/2008}
• • “It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful . . . so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good
livings, so they can accumulate the material things that this society bestows. Those are worthwhile goals. But it is not
enough to progress as individuals while our friends and neighbors are left behind.”  {blog 7/2008}
• • “The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”  {blog 7/2008}
• • “Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do,
you can demand their commitment in return.”  {blog 7/2008}
• • “You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” (in 1984)  {blog 4/2010}
• • “Talk is cheap . . . It is the way [that] we organize and use our lives every day that tells what we believe in.”  {blog 2/2016}

writer-director Stephen Chbosky
“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”  {blog 7/2018}

John Cheever [1912-82]
“Trust your editor, and you'll sleep on straw.”  {blog 11/2008}

Anton Chekhov [1860-1904]
• • “Everything is beautiful in this world – except what we think or do ourselves when we forget
our human dignity and the higher aims of our existence.”  {Issue #36}
• • “The knowledge that the aristocrats take for granted, we must pay for with our youth.”  {blog 11/2008}
• • “Don't tell me [that] the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”  {blog 5/2009}
• • “Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.”  {blog 12/2009}
• • “You will not become a saint thru other people's sins.”  {blog 10/2011}
• • “Man will become better when we have shown him to himself as he is.”  {blog 5/2013}
• • “Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you,
whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”  {blog 2/2016}
• • “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”  {blog 3/2016}
• • “Money, like vodka, turns a man into an eccentric.”  {blog 4/2016}

Michael Chekhov [1891-1955]
“An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.”  {blog 2/2016}

Phoebe Chen, film reviewer for The Nation Magazine
“The open road is a capitalist trick of deferral: Labor away with one eye on the scintillating future, and the present becomes bearable.”  {blog 11/2020}

traitor Dick Cheney
U.S. Vice President 2001-2009
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction.”   (on 20 August 2002)  {Issue #47}

former Cong. Liz Cheney [GOP WY-01]
“Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar.”  {blog 7/2022}

actress-singer Cher
“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.”  {blog 7/2018}

Cheshire Cat character, as written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) [1832-98]
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”  {blog 2/2016}

country music singer Kenny Chesney
“Chase your dreams. But always know the road that leads you home.”  {blog 6/2016}

author G.K. Chesterton [1874-1936]
G.K. Chesterton Quotations Page at Working Minds
G.K. Chesterton Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

Tracy Chevalier
“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”  {blog 10/2016}

physicist Geoffrey F. Chew
“Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.” - in the 1960s  {blog 3/2017}

Laura Chick
“If you're not indignant, you're not paying attention.”  {Issue #47}

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Tribe [1840-1904]
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”  {blog 3/2008 & 4/2018}

Chief Seattle [1786?-1866]
• • “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together. All things connect.”  {blog 4/2018}
• • “When you know who you are, when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will, no cold can touch
your heart, no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive.”  {blog 9/2018}

soccer/futball star Giorgio Chiellini
“At the end of the day it's better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.”  {blog 3/2023}

Julia Child [1912-2004]
• • “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”  {blog 4/2013}
• • “The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate,
something [that] you believe is worthwhile.”  {blog 10/2015}
• • “Life itself is the proper binge.”  {blog 7/2018}

Jerry Chin
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain,
there would be no rainbow.”  {blog 1/2010}

Peter Chippindale
“A good police force is one which catches more criminals than it employs.”  {Issue #28}

American politician Shirley Chisolm [1924-2005]
• • “When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”  {blog 12/2011}
• • “We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us, but also those that we have of ourselves.”  {blog 8/2016}
• • “If they do not give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”  {blog 9/2018}

Sister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B.
“Your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed.
That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth.”  {blog 10/2018}

Carina Chocano
“Life is ruled by chaos and chance, but made meaningful and worthwhile by love.”   {Issue #62}

Buddhist leader Acharya Pema Chödrön
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”  {blog 6/2018}

chef & businessman Roy Choi of West Los Angeles
“We're raising our children, our kids, our future generation on crap.”  {blog 7/2015}

Kamo-no Chomei [1155-1216]
“The flowing river never ceases, yet the water is never the same.”  {blog 9/2008}

philosopher-activist Noam Chomsky
• • “Where society is ruled by . . . a privileged elite, barriers must be created to prevent those outside
from understanding reality and acting on it in their own interests.” (1991)  {Issue #24}
• • “Truisms are best.”  {blog 11/2008}
• • “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”  {blog 2/2012}
• • “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion,
but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”  {blog 4/2016}
• • “Not only is it extremely unjust in itself, inequality has highly negative consequences on the society as a whole because the very fact
of inequality has a corrosive, harmful effect on democracy.”  {blog 3/2017}
• • “We should never overlook the fact that the threats that we now face are the most severe that have ever arisen in human history. They are
literal threats to survival . . . These are very urgent concerns, they cannot be delayed . . . They have to be faced directly and soon.”  {blog 3/2017}
• • “The class struggle is not going to go away. Unless you abandon it, and say: Okay, [the oppressors] win.”  {blog 5/2017}
• • “As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or to hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful
can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “The destruction of the information system . . . is a technique of propaganda that’s extremely effective. It’s working, and the effects are lethal.”  {blog 12/2019}
• • “The Civil War never really ended in the United States - literally.”  {blog 11/2020}

Deepak Chopra
• • “Instead of thinking outside of the box, get rid of the box.”  {blog 7/2017}
• • “All great changes are preceded by chaos.”  {blog 9/2017}
• • “The best path in life should aim for the goal of wholeness.”  {blog 6/2018}

Danish film director Benjamin Christensen [1879-1959]
“The belief in sorcery and witchcraft is probably as old as mankind. When primitive man is confronted with something incomprehensible,
the explanation is always sorcery and evil spirits . . . The belief in evil sprits, sorcery, and witchcraft is the result of naïve notions
about the mystery of the universe.” - in his 1922 silent documentary film "Häxan"  {blog 11/2020}

Dame Agatha Christie  [1890-1976]
• • “There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does
of his own free will.” (in "The Moving Finger")  {Issue #27}
• • “Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.”  {Issue #36}
• • “What is required is a passion for the truth.”  {Issue #66}
• • “Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's not reason not to give it.”  {Issue #68}
• • “Life, you know, is inclined to make a fellow cynical.”  {Issue #68}
• • “Fiction is founded on fact – but is rather superior to it.”  {blog 4/2008}
• • “Life is a difficult business . . . It needs infinite courage and a lot of endurance. And in the end
one wonders, Was it worth while?”  {blog 8/2008}
• • “They is a very vague term.”  {blog 9/2009}
• • “Not one in fifty really uses his eyes properly.”  {blog 2/2014}
• • “I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness,
possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”  {blog 11/2014}
• • “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.”  {blog 8/2023}

automaker Walter P. Chrysler  [1875-1940]
“Give the public something better and the public will buy.”  {blog 12/2007}

Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu [circa IVth Century B.C.E.]
“The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so [that] I can have a word with him?”  {blog 9/2008}

Walston Chubb
“An educated person is one who has attained a rational understanding of the pros and cons of
the major problems facing society during his[/her] lifetime.” (in 1978)  {blog 12/2010}

Sir Winston Churchill  [1874-1965]
Member of Parliament, 1924-64
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940-45 & 1951-55
Winston Churchill Quotations Page at Working Minds
Winston Churchill Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Michael Chute of the Second Maine Militia
“The problem isn't left versus right, it's up versus down.” (in 2009)  {blog 11/2009}

Marcus Tullius Cicero [106-43 B.C.E.]
• • “Reason should direct and appetite obey.”  {blog 6/2010}
• • “A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority
in which he delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”  {blog 3/2011}
• • “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”  {blog 10/2012}
• • “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”  {blog 9/2015}
• • “Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”  {blog 10/2015}
• • “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”  {blog 9/2016}
• • “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”  {blog 8/2018}
• • “I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”  {blog 12/2023}

Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran [1911-95]
“One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.”  {blog 7/2010}

comedian Louie C.K.
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”  {blog 4/2016}

Frank A. Clark [1860-1936]
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”  {blog 8/2019}

writer & cartoonist Frank A. Clark [1911-91]
• • “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”  {blog 5/2009}
• • “The most miserable possession [that] a man can have is the thing [that] he hurt somebody to get.”  {blog 1/2012}
• • “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”  {blog 2/2012}
• • “Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”  {blog 10/2017}

Gary Clark
“Ain't no money in poetry / That's what sets the poet free” - lyric of song "Cold Dog Soup"  {blog 2/2017}

Joe Clark
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.”  {blog 11/2015}

Keri Clark
“Everyone can find the time to write; not everyone can find the courage.”  {Issue #33}

author-visionary Arthur C. Clarke [1917-2008]
• • “All explorers are seeking something [that] they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still
that the attainment brings them more happiness than the quest.”  {Issue #38}
• • “One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.”
(in Free Inquiry, Spring 1999)  {Issue #65}
• • “Politicians should read science fiction, not Westerns and detective stories.”  {blog 12/2015}
• • “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is quite clearly Ocean.”  {blog 9/2016}

actress Emilia Clarke
“Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.”  {blog 10/2022}

Frank Clarke
“There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who can deal in binary and those who can't.”  {Issue #30}

children's author Beverly Cleary [1916-2021]
“If you don't see the book [that] you want on the shelf, write it.”  {blog 9/2017}

Eldridge Cleaver [1935-98]
• • “You are either part of the solution, or you are part of the problem.”  {Issues #28 & #62}
• • “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”  {blog 3/2012}

Grover Cleveland [1837-1908]
22nd and 24th President of the United States, 1885-89 & 1893-97
“At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate
a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or
may even find profit from the fluctuations of values, but the wage earner – the first to be injured
by a depreciated currency – is practically defenseless.”  {blog 10/2009}

Catherine Clinch
“Battery life has to improve.”  {blog 10/2012}

Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States, 1993-2001
• • “A slight majority seem to have decided [that] they would like a new
president. Kerry just has to close the deal.”  (July 2004)  {Issue #47}
• • “Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.”  {blog 7/2011}
• • “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”  {blog 8/2012}
• • “A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.”  {blog 5/2015}

Hillary Rodham Clinton
• • “Women’s rights are human rights.”  {blog 5/2015}
• • “[Orlando] is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States, and it reminds us once more
that weapons of war have no place on our streets.”  {blog 6/2016}
• • “To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.”  {blog 9/2016}
• • “Donald Trump and William Barr have set America on the road to tyranny.”  {blog 6/2019}

Kate Clinton
“Republicans are worried about voter fraud – [it] seems [that] there is not enough of it.”  {blog 9/2009}

actor-producer George Clooney
“Find the ones who haven't given up – they are the future.”  — line spoken in the movie "Tomorrowland" [2015]  {blog 6/2015}

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, star of "The Pink Panther" Movies
• • “A woman is like an artichoke, you must work hard to get to her heart.”  {blog 1/2017}
• • “There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”  {blog 2/2017}

Ta-nehisi Coates
“The truth stalks us like bad credit.”  {blog 7/2013}

Irvin S. Cobb [1896-1944]
“Learn all the rules, every one of them, so that you will know how to break them.”  {blog 2/2011}
• • “I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”  {blog 7/2021}

Kim Cobb, climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology
“Each time you let these opportunities slip through your fingers, you’re passing a much harder problem on to the next generation. It’s a very hard
thing to swallow that we are relegating children born today and not yet born to a future of dangerous climate impacts.”  {blog 10/2021}

William Cobbett
“It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.”  {blog 7/2008}

mystery author Margaret Coel
• • “Baseball teaches some useful lessons: play by the rules, be part of the team, do your best,
learn from errors, enjoy the rewards.”
• • “Life is a series of adjustments to plans that didn't work out.”  {blog 12/2010}

Brasilian author Paulo Coelho
• • “Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”  {blog 12/2012}
• • “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”  {blog 3/2015}
• • “Impossible is just an opinion.”  {blog 8/2015}
• • “Certain things in life simply have to be experienced – and never explained. Love is such a thing.”  {blog 6/2017}
• • “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”  {blog 4/2018}
• • “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”  {blog 8/2018}
• • “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself.”  {blog 2/2019}
• • “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” - in "The Alchemist" [1988]  {blog 12/2023}
• • “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - in "The Alchemist" [1988]  {blog 4/2024}

Allan Cohen
“The [San Francisco-Oakland] Bay area is one of the great experiments in ambulatory psychosis.”  {blog 7/2016}

Canadian singer-songwriter  Leonard Cohen [1934-2016]
• • “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”  {blog 6/2012}
• • “When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.”  {blog 12/2012}
• • “There is a crack in everything, it's how the light gets in.”  {blog 4/2015}
• • “Reality is one of the possibilities [that] I cannot afford to ignore.”  {blog 11/2016}
• • “If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”  {blog 9/2017}

filmmaker [Ms] Maxi Cohen of Venice, California
“Television is the glue that keeps us apart.”  {Issue #43}

Steven Martin Cohen
“Blood is thicker than water? So is toothpaste.” - on Facebook 2018  {blog 9/2018}

Hollywood mogul Harry Cohn [1891-1958]
“I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms,
it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.”  {blog 12/2011}

Sir Edward Coke [1552-1634]
• • “A man's home is his castle. {The house of an Englishman is to him as his castle.}”  {blog 6/2012}
• • “They [corporations] cannot commit treason . . . for they have no souls.”  {blog 1/2013}

Jean Baptiste Colbert [1619-83]
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers
with the least amount of hissing.”  {blog 2/2011}

Frank Moore Colby [1865-1925]
“A new thinker, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.”  {blog 5/2015}

hedge fund billionaire Charles Payson 'Chase' Coleman III
“The person who does best is the one with the panic button farthest from his keyboard.”  {blog 10/2022}

Samuel T. Coleridge [1772-1834]
“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason
or imagination, rarely or never.”  {blog 1/2008}

{Sidonie Gabrielle} Colette [1873-1954]
• • “Who said you should be happy? Do your work.”  {Issue #21}
• • “Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author
is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”  {blog 6/2008}
• • “A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.”  {blog 4/2009}
• • “Real poverty is lack of books.”  {blog 5/2017}

U.S. poet Billy Collins
“One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the gulf between how serious we [poets] take ourselves and
how generally we are ignored by everybody else.”  {blog 10/2015}

Gail Collins, columnist at the The New York Times
“There is NO situation SO bad that Donald Trump can't make WORSE.”  {blog 2/2021}

actress Joan Collins, DBE [b. 1933]
“It's utterly ridiculous that powerful, resilient women are portrayed as dangerous, whereas in my experience
it's the predatory men who are the real threat.”  {blog 10/2022}

John Churton Collins [1848-1908]
“Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.”  {blog 2/2011}

Michael Collins
“Only people destroy beauty.”  {blog 12/2008}

John Robert Colombo
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” - in “A Said Poem”, 1970  {blog 10/2017}

Henry Steele Commager [1902-98]
“Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of
the past, while we silence the rebels of the present.”  {blog 4/2010}

Chinese philosopher Confucius / Kong Qiu [551-479 B.C.E.]
• • “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.” - in "Analects of Confucius"  {blog 11/2007}
• • “The superior man is distressed by his want of ability.”  {blog 11/2008}
• • “Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”  {blog 4/2017}
• • “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”  {blog 8/2017}
• • “You have two lives, the second one begins when you realize you only have one.”  {blog 1/2022}
• • “To be wealthy in an unjust society is a disgrace.”  {blog 1/2023}

English playwright Sir Wm. Congreve [1670-1729]
• • “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.” ~~ the first line of his 1697 play "The Mourning Bride", spoken by Almeria;
often misquoted as 'Music has charms to soothe the savage beast'  {blog 8/2015}
• • “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” ~~ spoken in "The Mourning Bride" by Zara
in Act III, Scene VIII; usually paraphrased as 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'  {blog 10/2015}

Darby Conley (draws the "Get Fuzzy" comic strip)
• • “Cogito ergo consume.”  {Issue #35}
• • “I think, therefore I am annoyed.”  {blog 12/2007}

Scottish comedian Billy Connelly
“Who discovered [that] we could get milk from cows, and what did he think that he was doing at the time?”  {blog 4/2016}

mystery author Michael Connelly
• • “There are too many people in the world who believe everything [that] they see on television.”  {Issue #41}
• • “Live by the media, die by the media.”  {Issue #43}
• • “Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass . . . It has to do with
society not addressing the essential needs of overlooked people.” - in "Angels Flight"  {Issue #66}

Ruth Conniff, editor-in-chief at The Progressive Magazine [est. 1909]
• • “Free market ideology [has] evolved from simple, old-fashioned greed into the sociopathic
culture of looting [that] we see on Wall Street today.”  {blog 7/2010}
• • “In the old battle between the public interest and private greed . . . private greed is winning, personified by President Donald Trump.”  {blog 6/2017}
• • “[Donald Trump's] sociopathic narcissim knows no bounds.”  {blog 7/2017}

Cyril Connolly [1903-74]
• • “We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it
with passion, if we want to be happy.”   {blog 5/2009}
• • “Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities
whom we do not control.”  {blog 8/2012}

Richard Connolly
“In numbers there is quantity.”  {blog 6/2012}

Joseph Conrad [1857-1924]
• • “Give me the right words and the right actions, and I will move the world.”  {Issue #46}
• • “A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite
capable of every wickedness.”  {blog 2/2010}
• • “I must live until I die – mustn't I?”  {blog 12/2012}
• • “A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”  {blog 1/2014}
• • “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”  {blog 12/2019}

editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad [1924-2010]
“Beware of the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, [who] infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How will I know? For this I have done. And I am Julius Caesar.”
{ often falsely attributed to Julius Caesar [100-44 B.C.E.] }  {Issue #29}

mystery author K.C. Constantine
• • “How'd it get like this? It's like the Depression all over again.”  {Issue #38}
• • “Fiction is damn near the only way to tell the truth in America.”  {Issue #39}

Dave Contarino, manager of Bill Richardson's 2008 presidential campaign
“If Job #1 for the next American president is getting us out of Iraq, Job #2 is leading
the world's response to global climate change.”  {blog 7/2008}

historian Blanche Wiesen Cook
“And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly
and without fear for newer and richer experience.”  {blog 10/2016}

sports announcer Dan Cook {not Yogi Berra}
“It ain't over till the fat lady sings.”  {Issue #38}

Mason Cooley [1927-2002]
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”  {blog 3/2017}

(John) Calvin Coolidge [1872-1933]
30th President of the United States, 1923-29
• • “[T]he accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence . . . So long as
wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it.”  {blog 6/2008}
• • “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important,
as living within your means.”   {blog 12/2009}
• • “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”  {blog 5/2012}
• • “Nobody ever listened himself out of a job.”  {blog 8/2014}
• • “Work is not a curse. It is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.”  {blog 2/2016}

columnist Marc Cooper
• • “The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attack on John Kerry is the lowest, filthiest campaign maneuver
I've seen in my adult life. It is deeply offensive and intellectually insulting.”  {Issue #47}
• • “The Big Three Unresolved Issues that neither party has much to say about [are]
jobs, education, and health care.”  {Issue #54}

Rory Cooper, once a top aide to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
“It's so obvious to the point of cliche at this point that Trump is in this for one person and one person alone, himself. He steals fundraising, picks lousy
candidates, and is an anchor in competitive races, so one would wonder how much longer the party tolerates this loser nonsense.”  {blog 1/2023}

Ryan Cooper
“The Great Recession never fully ended.” - in "The Week Magazine", July 2017  {blog 8/2017}

Bill Copeland [1946-2010]
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”  {blog 4/2014}

Francis Ford Coppola
• • “Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.”  {Issue #37}
• • “I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”  {blog 7/2015}

Richard Corliss, film critic at Time Magazine
“Familiarity breeds contempt only among [movie] critics.”  {blog 9/2009}

David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones Magazine [est. 1976]
“The road to hell is paved with both-siderism.”  {blog 10/2021}

beat poet Gregory Corso [1930-2001]
“You have to hurry. Death is chasing you and it's closer than you think.
There's a lot to do in a short time.”  {Issue #46}

entertainer Bill Cosby
• • “The revolution is in your neighborhood, it's in your house, it's in your mind.”  {Issue #53}
• • “I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
{after Herbert Bayard Swope [1882-1958]}  {Issue #59}
• • “There is no labor [that] a person does that is undignified, if they do it right.”  {blog 9/2011}
• • “Parents are not interested in justice. They're interested in peace and quiet.”  {blog 7/2012}
• • “Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come home.”  {blog 12/2012}
• • “No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior,
and I'm not talking about the kids.”  {blog 3/2013}
• • “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”  {blog 4/2014}

marketing expert E. Joseph Cossman [1918-2002]
• • “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”  {blog 11/2014}
• • “To be without some of the things [that] you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”  {blog 3/2015}
• • “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”  {blog 4/2015}
• • “Love is a friendship set to music.”  {blog 5/2015}
• • “Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.”  {blog 6/2015}
• • “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”  {blog 8/2015}

cinema auteur Costa-Gavras
“The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.”  {blog 3/2014}

character George Costanza on the "Seinfeld" TV series [1989-1998]
“It’s not a lie if you believe it.”  {blog 11/2022}

Kevin Costner
“Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.”  {blog 12/2011}

Sam Cottrell
“If you want to truly bear a burden, deal with reality. If you want to know true joy, succeed at dealing with reality.”  {blog 8/2017}

Ann 'The Man' Coulter
“Democrats would never win if we took away women's right to vote.”  {blog 2/2012}

writer Emilie Coulter
“Fate has its own objectives.”  {blog 7/2021}

Jeffrey Courion
“Story is the shortest distance between people.”  {blog 11/2011}

writer-activist Norman Cousins [1915-90]
• • “The wild dream is the first step to reality.”  {Issue #36}
• • “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.”  {Issue #62}
• • “In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries
the ultimate responsibility.”  {blog 11/2007}
• • “In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.”  {blog 2/2017}
• • “The tragedy of life is not death but what we allow to die in us while we live.”  {blog 11/2020}

Jacques Cousteau [1910-97]
“Population growth is the primary cause of environmental damage.”  {Issue #43}

Stephen Covey [1932-2012]
• • “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”  {blog 12/2013}
• • “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”  {blog 9/2014}
• • “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”  {blog 8/2017}

Noël Coward [1899-1973]
• • “Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.”  {blog 10/2008}
• • “Why must the show go on?”  {blog 12/2009}
• • “Work is much more fun than fun.”  {blog 5/2010}
• • “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”  {blog 1/2012}

John Cox
“You know what they say in Hollywood - all rumors are true.”  {blog 11/2020}

artist Molly Crabapple lives in New York City
“Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.”  {blog 12/2015}

U.S.M.C. LCpl. Edwin L. 'Tim' Craft
“For those that fought for it, freedom has a flavor [that] the protected shall never know.”  {blog 12/2013}

Robert Crais
“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”  {Issue #33}

cartoonist Brian Crane
“The Buddhist approach is 'Don't just do something, sit there'.”  {blog 3/2010}

Cynic philosopher Crates of Thebes [365?-285? BCE]
“A man ought to study philosophy, up to the point of looking on generals and donkey-drivers in the same light.”
- quoted by Greek historian Diogenes Laërtius [Third Century AD]  {blog 11/2016}

filmmaker Wes Craven [1939-2015]
“Horror films don't create fear. They release it.”  {blog 9/2015}

William Crawford
“The best way to rob a bank is to own one.”  {blog 11/2009}

Lakota Sioux war leader Crazy Horse [c. 1840-1877]
• • “One day I will leave this world and dream myself to reality.” (in 1874)  {Issue #24}
• • “Hóka-héy, today is a good day to die!”  {blog 10/2011}

Dave Crenshaw
“Time management is dead; in our day the true struggle is focus management.”  {blog 3/2016}

Rudy Crew
“Education is about the distribution of knowledge . . . and to whom we actually distribute
this particular commodity is a major question in this country.”  {Issue #43}

Michael Crichton [1942-2008]
• • “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know [that] it is part of a tree.”  {blog 1/2013}
• • “In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century,
they want to be entertained.”  {blog 11/2013}

Francis H.C. Crick [1916-2004]
“Consciousness is the product of millions of years of evolution.”  {Issue #30}

Quentin Crisp [1908-99]
• • “Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.”  {blog 9/2008}
• • “The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands
of some other person.”  {blog 3/2012}

Mark Cromer
“There really is no why and there often is no warning. When death comes, it just comes. In the meantime,
we should just celebrate our lives a little each day and relish every sunset [that] we can.”  {blog 7/2016}

A.J. Cronin [1896-1981]
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”  {blog 10/2012}

Walter Cronkite [1916-2009]
“Most of the people say [that] they . . . get their news from television. That means they're inadequately
informed, too poorly informed to exercise their rights in a democracy. You cannot give people enough
information on the nightly news.”  (Writers' Digest Sept 2001)  {Issue #14}

essayist [Ms] Sloane Crosley
“Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.”  {blog 11/2015}

Aleister Crowley [1875-1947]
• • “Every act of love is a change in the universe.”  {blog 1/2012}
• • “Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”  {blog 6/2018}

Eleanor Crumblehulme
“Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.”  {blog 2/2016}

James Crumley [1939-2008]
“Not everything in California is a bad idea.”  {Issue #42}

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz
“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident [that] I will be the answer.”  {blog 3/2015}

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“I have a naive trust in the universe . . . that at some level it all makes sense,
and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.”  {blog 9/2008}

Mark Cuban
“It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once, and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.”  {blog 8/2016}

American poet E.E. Cummings [1894-1962]
• • “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”  {Issue #41}
• • “To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight
the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”  {blog 10/2017}

politician Mario Cuomo [1932-2015]
“You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”  {blog 6/2016}

Will Cuppy [1884-1949]
“All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.”  {blog 2/2011}

Nobel-laureate physicist Marie Curie [1867-1934]
• • “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”  {blog 1/2010 & 10/2017}
• • “I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”  {blog 2/2018}
• • “I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician:
he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”  {blog 12/2019}

movie director Michael Curtiz [1886-1962]
“The next time I want some dumb son of a bitch to do something, I'll do it myself.”  {blog 2/2010}

actress Charlotte Cushman
“To try to be better is to be better.”  {blog 4/2012}

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