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

• 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

• 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
  • Believers

• I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Blessed
  • Patience

• I can go days without eating if I don't think about food. Your mind, to protect itself, learns not to pay attention to that hunger feeling.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Food

• I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

  

  Maria Muldaur
  • Rock

• There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• Today is a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan. Like karate and karaoke. Manga and anime. And, of course, emojis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Today
  • Anime

• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Truth
  • American
  • Mainstream

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

  

  James Broughton