James Branch Cabell Quotes

Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

James Branch Cabell

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
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• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Experience
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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
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  • High
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• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
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  • Doing
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• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
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• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
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• In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Way
  • Me

• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
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  • Worthlessness

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
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  • Grade

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Simple

• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Imagination

• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Great
  • True
  • Perfect

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'd say Illinois, Michigan State and Indiana will probably be the top of the class. But one thing is this year, the league has a lot of balance. When I mention Illinois, Indiana and Michigan State, they are probably the best teams but they aren't going to dominate.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Balance
  • Teams
  • Illinois

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • May

• Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • May
  • Book