James Boswell Quotes

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• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Why
  • Childhood

• I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • September
  • Innocence

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wish

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  

  Gary Player
  • Game
  • Play
  • Golf

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Remember
  • Young
  • First

• That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • You
  • Painful

• It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Thought

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Football
  • Television

• À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.

  

  Victor Hugo

• There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • True
  • Vision

• I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!'

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Time

• There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Remember

• I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Loyalty

• Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Above all, every relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree upon religion, as the prodigies of Livy: And no less so, everything that is to be found in the writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, who seem, all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Magic

• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Believe

• The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

  

  James Boswell
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