Haroldine Cunningham Quotes

#1. There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success; #Quote by Norman Vincent Peale

#2. Morning, Peter," she calls
from the back, in her exaggerated German accent. Mawning, Pedder.
She's been in the States more than fifteen years now, but her
accent has gotten heavier. Uta is a member of what seems to be a
growing body of defiantly unassimilated expatriates. She on one
hand disdains her country of origin (Darling, the word "lugubrious"
comes to mind) but on the other seems to grow more German (more
not-American) with every passing year.
...
Because Uta is German, utterly German, which of course is probably why she left
there, and insists that she'll never go back. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#3. I'm not this unusual," she said. "It's just my hair."
She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction.
"Be brave," I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#4. Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of radiance. When she's crossed over to this realm of relentless brilliance, the voices start. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#5. An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident. #Quote by Glenn Cunningham

#6. It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character, one he has invested with nearly limitless capacities for tragedy and comedy not because that is your true nature but because he, Richard, needs to live in a world peopled by extreme and commanding figures. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#7. He could see himself selling himself as a compelling mutation, a young god, proud to the point of sexy arrogance of his anatomical deviation: ninety percent thriving muscled man-flesh and ten percent glorious blindingly white angel wing.
Baby, these feathers are going to tickle you halfway to heaven, and this man-part is going to take you the rest of the way. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#8. Get it out of your historic head. #Quote by Imogen Cunningham

#9. What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#10. I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we're missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we're losing that. #Quote by Walter Cunningham

#11. I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by. #Quote by Kenny Cunningham

#12. I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison. #Quote by Stacey D'Erasmo

#13. It's remarkable, being alive. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#14. He demands that his mother pick him up so he can see the soldiers better; so he will be more visible to them. All this enters the bridge, resounds through its wood and stone, and enters Virginia's body. Her face, pressed sideways to the piling, absorbs it all: the truck and the soldiers, the mother and the child. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#15. Look at the sky. Does its sapphire hue dim when you take a single breath? Are the stars drawn closer when you weep? The sky cannot be diminished so. Thus it is with the spirit: it is a thing without beginning or end. #Quote by Elaine Cunningham

#16. The kiss was innocent
innocent enough
but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a love complex and ravenous, ancient, neither this nor that. It will serve as this afternoon's manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#17. Oh, pride, pride. I was so wrong. It defeated me. It simply proved insurmountable. There was so much, oh, far too much for me. I mean, there's the weather, there's the water and the land, there are the animals, and the buildings, and the past and the future, there's space, there's history. There's this thread or something caught between my teeth, there's the old woman across the way, did you notice she switched the donkey and the squirrel on her windowsill? And, of course, there's time. And place. And there's you, Mrs. D. I wanted to tell part of the story of part of you. Oh, I'd love to have done that."
"Richard. You wrote a whole book."
"But everything's left out of it, almost everything. And then I just stuck on a shock ending. Oh, now, I'm not looking for sympathy, really. We want so much, don't we?"
"Yes. I suppose we do."
"You kissed me beside a pond."
"Ten thousand years ago."
"It's still happening. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#18. Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#19. Love, it seems, arrives not only unannounced, but so accidentally, so randomly, as to make you wonder why you, why anyone, believes even fleetingly in laws of cause and effect #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#20. I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#21. I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#22. More things in this world have been accomplished in this world by persistence than by wisdom. #Quote by Elaine Cunningham

#23. Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages? #Quote by Ward Cunningham

#24. It's hard enough to make a film without everyone saying, "Hang on, is this version as good as the one Kubrick would have made?" In peoples' minds they'll always think if Kubrick had done it it would be so much better. You don't need that extra stress. #Quote by Chris Cunningham

#25. I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend. #Quote by Kenny Cunningham

#26. This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right? #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#27. Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects. #Quote by Scott Cunningham

#28. If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth. #Quote by Loren Cunningham

#29. The only way to do it is to do it. #Quote by Merce Cunningham

#30. Wicca's temples are flowered-splashed meadows, forest, beaches, and deserts. #Quote by Scott Cunningham

#31. There is something exciting about this. Peter still doesn't want to have sex with Mizzy, but there is something thrilling about downing a shot of vodka with another man who happens to be naked. There's the covert brotherliness of it, a locker-room aspect, the low, masculine, eroticized love-hum that's not so much about the flesh as it is about the commonality. You, Peter, as devoted as you are to your wife, as completely as you understand her very real worries on Mizzy's behalf, also understand Mizzy's desire to make his own way, to avoid that maelstrom of womanly ardor, that distinctly feminine sense that you will be healed, whether you want to be or not.
Men are united in their commonness, maybe it's as simple as that. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#32. God took the hard rocks at the bottom of my pit and stacked them up high, creating something beautiful for His glory. #Quote by Diane Cunningham

#33. Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again
it never would have been the same. Start stealing! #Quote by Imogen Cunningham

#34. Mostly everything that exists began with a dream. #Quote by Sonia Cunningham Leverette

#35. Any other vexations to report?" he asks.
"I love the word 'vexations.'"
"It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that."
"Just the usual ones," she says.
"How was the weekend?"
"Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You? #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#36. Fatigue is a state of mind. If you are very tired and then, suddenly, one minute later you find out you won a BIG lottery, your tiredness would vanish immediately. Why? Because your thoughts are excited about the future and its many possibilities. What changed from one minute ago? You don't even actually possess the money at that point and yet you are full of energy and likely won't sleep for many hours. #Quote by Tom Cunningham

#37. Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts. #Quote by Cunningham Geikie

#38. The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be. #Quote by Bill Cunningham

#39. The Son of God had missionary supporters #Quote by Loren Cunningham

#40. I look forward to every script that comes down the pike. #Quote by Colin Cunningham

#41. Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need. #Quote by Scott Cunningham

#42. The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. #Quote by Imogen Cunningham