James Broughton Quotes

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

James Broughton

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• The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Bad
  • Party
  • Government

• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Soul
  • Never
  • Camera

• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Year

• When eating out while on tour, a great place to get vegetarian food is Thai restaurants, as they have lots of options. I absolutely adore salad and vegetables - I will eat salad until it's coming out of my ears. Although I think it's great in any form, my particular favourite has to be beetroot salad.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Great
  • Think
  • Food

• But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Great
  • America
  • City

• I'm certainly not a workaholic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Certainly
  • Workaholic

• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Creative

• I love working in America!

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Love
  • America
  • Working

• To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Space

• Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - 'Halt!'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Christian

• We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Eyes
  • Notes
  • Wallet

• What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • True
  • Criticism
  • Rejection

• Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Religion
  • Spirit
  • Conflicts

• New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

  

  Jim Walsh
  • Service

• Get the mind into the (partial) state that solved the old problem; then it might handle the new problem in the 'same way.'

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Mind

• Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

  

  Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • House
  • Drummer
  • Sticks

• Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

  

  James Broughton