James Agee Quotes

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

James Agee

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• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Up
  • Started
  • Had

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Heart
  • You
  • Know

• Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Accounting

• I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Service

• I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Win
  • Destination

• At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • End

• We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Why
  • She
  • Decision

• If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Small
  • Fate
  • Risks

• That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

  

  Larry Wall

• I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Rest

• 'Love lives forever.'

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Forever

• You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

  

  David Dunn
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Football

• Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.

  

  James Comey
  • Dark

• We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Music
  • Trying

• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Truth
  • Voice
  • Saying

• It's different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don't like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I've written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Time
  • Different
  • Taken

• I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • I Hate
  • Department

• The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

  

  James Agee