James Boswell Quotes

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

James Boswell

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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  

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• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

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• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

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• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

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• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

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• Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

  

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  • Together
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• I hate negative ads in general.

  

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  • Hate
  • Negative
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• I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

  

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  • Mother
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• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

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• Roy, this is my wife, Georgina Spica - she has a heart of gold and a body to match... and I am Albert Spica and I have a heart of gold and a great deal of money to match.

  

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• My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

  

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• My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

  

  James Boswell
  • Wife
  • Figure
  • Posterity