“It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight…”

— Cormac McCarthy, book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sigh…" by Cormac McCarthy?

Cormac McCarthy270

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

Michael Nava (1954) American writer

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Burning Plain (1997), p.282 (Chapter 21)

“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
“you know I love you dearly—”
“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: It's in His Kiss

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Source: Not A Star

“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“Hello everyone!
I suppose that you think that nothing much is happening at the moment. Ah ah ah! Well, that's what I want to talk to you all about: endings. Now, endings normally happen at the end. But, as we all know, endings are just beginnings. You know, once these things really get started, it's jolly hard to stop them again.
However, as we have all come this far, I think, under the circumstances, the best solution is that we all just keep going. Let's keep going inside, never an ending. Let's remember that this world wants fresh beginnings. I feel here, in this Country, and throughout the world, we are crying out for beginnings, beginnings!
We never want to hear this word "endings". I know you don't want to sit down. Of course, you're looking for the good start. Of course you're looking for a fresh start.
Isn't that charming? Do you know, I really feel I could dance…”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

Song lyrics, Amarok (1990)

“When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.”

E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor

Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p55.

“It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”

Richard Bach book Nothing by Chance

Source: Nothing by Chance

“All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.”

James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist

Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)

““Scheer, are you any good at counterfeiting?”
“I’ve never tried it, sir.”
“No time like the present. Every man needs an alternative profession.””

Robert A. Heinlein book Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 6 (p. 72)

“It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight…”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Cormac McCarthy270

Related quotes

Related topics