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Quotes About Independence

If I dont go will you go anyways? John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I'm not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Housecats is smart too. Smarter'n a dog or a mule. Folks thinks they ain't on account of you cain't learn em nothin, but what it is is that they won't learn nothin. They too smart.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often
~ Cormac McCarthy
You're free white and twenty-one so I reckon you can do whatever you want.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If mathematical objects exist independently of human thought what else are they independent of? The universe, I suppose. When you solve a problem there is always the compelling sense that the solution was there and that you have discovered it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Üç hafta önce s?radan bir vatandaÅŸt?m. Dokuz-sekiz aras? çal???yordum. Daha doÄŸrusu sekiz-dört. Bir olay oldu mu oluyor iÅŸte. Sana sormuyor ve iznini istemiyor.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Yet the captain inhabited another space and it was a space of his own election and outside the common world of men.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Did you want her to kill herself? No. I wanted her to be free. Do you think that's freedom? Maybe not. But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said one time that just because the world was spinning didnt mean that you couldnt get off. There's
~ Cormac McCarthy
Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know." Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. "Well, children all have to belong to somebody," he muttered. "Do you belong to someone?" "That's different." "Because you're a grown-up?
~ Cornelia Funke
Look at your daughter,' she whispered. 'As brave as...as.. She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them seemed to her brave enough for comparison to the girl standing there, perfectly straight, scrutinizing Capricorn's Black Jackets, with her chin jutting out defiantly.
~ Cornelia Funke
And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.
~ Cornelia Funke
Some of the other mudlarks also swore that Ofelia Fuente's mother was a Witch, but they said that about almost every woman, especially the ones who managed to make a living for themselves.
~ Cornelia Funke
Keep the dogs off me!
~ Cornelia Funke
Nicht länger Celeste. Fuchs. Sie war Fuchs. Sie war frei.
~ Cornelia Funke
No one will sing it, Meggie. People don't like their heroes to need help, particularly not from women and children.
~ Cornelia Funke
Don't have a mother," he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
~ Cornelia Funke
I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.
~ Cory Doctorow
Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free.
~ Cory Doctorow
I have given this offer more consideration than it is due already. Now, fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying 'You Can't Fuck Off Past Here.' Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
~ Cory Doctorow