James Agee Quotes

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Art
  • Today
  • Culture

• I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Prideful

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Home
  • Street

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Human
  • Say

• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Body

• It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Script

• I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Books
  • Romance

• There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Money
  • Leave

• Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Reality
  • Mad

• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  

  Babasaheb

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Animal

• Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Responsibility
  • Disney

• It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Strong
  • Passion

• BecauseHe is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter-Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Judge

• Baryonyx is on display at the Natural History Museum in London. If you ever get the chance to view this wonderful specimen, remember that you just might be looking at the skeleton of one of the dragons from English history and legend (e.g., Sir George the Dragon Slayer) or one of the dragons spoken of in the Bible.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Remember
  • History
  • English

• To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mean
  • Emotion
  • Adore

• The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say 'Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.'

  

  Charles Evans Hughes
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind

• This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

  

  James Agee
  • Sky