“ This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.7K
“ In the '60s, it was Jim Crow. In the '80s it's Mr. James Crow, Esquire. ”
- Harry Edwards- Copy
- 3.7K
“ James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. ”
- Brendan Behan- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. ”
- Charlotte Curtis- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. ”
- John Selden- Copy
- 3K
“ There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
- 2K
“ I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun. ”
- Heather Mills- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together. ”
- Wilfrid Sheed- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2K
“ It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 1K
“ James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Facetiously is the only English word that has all six vowels in order, James Thurber declared. "Oh," replied copy editor Miss Gould, "What about abstemiously?". ”
- David Remmick- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way, I should be in favor of doing it. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was alive. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 948
“ The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. ”
- Eldridge Cleaver- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Well, Marlon had graduated from my school a couple of years earlier. But we were together at the Actor's Studio. Everybody was there, Jimmy Dean… And back then I saw Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope… She's an old lady now-Judith Anderson! I saw her play Medea… ”
- Beatrice Arthur- Copy
- 1.6K
“ From Jesse James to Loeb and Leopold, from the perpetrators of the St Valentine's Day's massacre to the Lindbergh kidnapper and beyond, our celebrated delinquents have become a part of the national heritage. ”
- F. W. Dupree- Copy
- 2.1K
“ To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean. ”
- Art Garfunkel- Copy
- 4K
“ I know that the White House was designed by James Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any president of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I guess today Senator James Jeffords from Vermont left the Republican party, became an independent. Yeah, he said he did it to follow his conscience and his principles. See, that's why he became independent, if you have a conscience and principles, you can't be Republican or Democratic. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 2.7K
“ That was one of the things that James Taylor said about us when he inducted us into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; that this was a real working band. It's very obvious when people come down to see the show tonight, they'll understand that this band has been getting along better personally and musically for the past couple of years and we're flying. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 3.3K
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