James Branch Cabell Quotes

Hey, my masters, lords and brothers, ye that till the fields of rhyme, Are ye deaf ye will not hearken to the clamor of your time?

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• When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Great
  • Give
  • Floyd

• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Want
  • Clever

• I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Like
  • Private Life

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Story

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Success
  • View

• I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Father
  • Lies

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Music
  • Understanding
  • Cutting

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Dead

• In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Work
  • Courage

• With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Will

• In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Worry

• Hey, my masters, lords and brothers, ye that till the fields of rhyme, Are ye deaf ye will not hearken to the clamor of your time?

  

  James Branch Cabell
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