James Boswell Quotes

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

James Boswell

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• It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Song
  • You

• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Things

• Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Education
  • Party
  • Health

• Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Like
  • Choose
  • Dramatic

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Earth

• If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?

  

  Bozoma Saint John

• I eat a lot of ice - isn't that ridiculous? I chew on ice, and I have maybe two diet sodas a day.

  

  Jo Marie Payton

• I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Good

• Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

  

  Mark Helprin

• Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.

  

  Chelsea Cain

• The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.

  

  Bruce Beutler
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • Bible
  • Forget
  • Argument

• Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Acceptance

• Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Pleasure
  • Harmony

• The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

  

  William Binney
  • Goal
  • Population
  • Ultimate

• The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But actually doing it may prove to be one of the real challenges in our complicated, overheated lives.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Real
  • May
  • Challenges

• On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Death
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

  

  James Boswell
  • Temper
  • Sensible
  • Keenness