James Branch Cabell Quotes
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
-
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
-
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-
I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
-
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
-
You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
-
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
-
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
-
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
-
I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
-
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
-
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
-
Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want
-
I believe that when the collective, as a whole, when people as a whole realize that we are everywhere, that we are your children and we are your mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, that we have been with you and among you and we are you, we have been this whole time, that that’s the moment when the myths and the bullying and the inequality will end.
-
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
-
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
