James Agee Quotes
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
Quotes to Explore
-
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
-
Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
-
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
-
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
-
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
-
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
-
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
-
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
-
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
-
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
-
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
-
I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
-
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
-
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
-
I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
-
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
-
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
-
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
-
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
-
It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.
-
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
-
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
-
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
