James Caan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
-
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.
-
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
-
Meditation helps me to calm down.
-
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
-
I love bayou life.
-
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
-
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
-
Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
-
The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
-
Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
-
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
-
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
-
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
-
When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
-
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
-
At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
-
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
-
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.
-
Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
-
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
