James Boswell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
-
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
-
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
-
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
-
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
-
I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
-
You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
-
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
-
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
-
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
-
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
-
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
-
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
-
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
-
A man really determines himself by what he does.
-
Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.
-
I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
-
Do you ask the same questions about the trauma the nation suffers when you are removing a judge as when you are removing a president? ... That answer must be stunningly different when you are asked should the president of the United States be removed and the will of the electorate overturned.
-
The successful painter is continually painting still life.
-
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
-
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
-
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
