Quotes About James

Ace sat down and inflated his cheeks like the wind gods in Italian paintings.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

What happens this time, a hospital visit? Whoah! said Cyrus. See, now you must be reading my mind, because that's exactly why!

Malone chose to fuse life and works through extended notes that appeared at the bottom of each page of text.

After the Fact, a book for college history majors in which they emphasize that history is not a set of facts but a series of arguments, issues, and controversies.

repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Works" are simply a natural part of faith. James's statement is about the inherent nature of faith, about what makes it up. It concerns what believing something really amounts to. It is not an exhortation to prove that one has faith or to work to keep one's faith alive.

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Don't underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Glorious Revolution overthrew King James, made William king in his place, weakened the king's power, increased Parliament's power, and thereby promoted the development of institutions more favorable for economic growth.

The most favorite boy's name is James; the least favorite is Gzxkls.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Tomasz tried to joke. 'Not teamwork.' But he wasn't smiling. And now James was thinking. The cut. The teamwork thing. He had some serious questions. Were they really a team when Aaron and Ryan behaved like that? And, if they weren't a team, how was this game against FC Barcelona under-elevens going to go?

Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.

The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

row of damaged books which Davenport had failed to return to the London Library.

sat transfixed by the rhythm of that voice – the strong view lightly stated. It wasn't words plus pictures.

Any critic who complains about the monotony of what he is being paid to look at is really complaining about the condition of his own soul.

Hoffendahl is, in the effect he has upon others, not unlike what is told of Bakunin himself in his greatest days, when he could enthrall with his passion even those who could not understand the language he spoke in. But it is possible that James also had the famous Johann Most in mind. Most figured in the London press in 1881 when he was tried because his newspaper, Freiheit, exulted in the assassination of the Czar.