Charles James Quotes

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Got
  • Only

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Answer

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • History
  • Culture

• My memory's pretty much gone.

  

  Jim McMahon
  • Pretty

• I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

  

  John Zorn
  • Music

• We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Hope
  • Bird
  • Warble

• So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.

  

  Charles James
  • People
  • Mankind
  • Nationality