James Anthony Froude Quotes

Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...

James Anthony Froude

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Work
  • Know
  • Deal

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Work
  • Like
  • Show

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • California
  • Taxes

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Film
  • Stars

• Luxury is a state of mind.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Mind
  • State
  • Luxury

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Creative
  • Force

• You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Tea
  • Newspaper

• If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Life

• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Men
  • May