James Branch Cabell Quotes
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism. … It is the Fashion to be a wit. … one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.
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I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.
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All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.
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You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
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Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
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Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism. … It is the Fashion to be a wit. … one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.
