James Callis Quotes

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

James Callis

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• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Water
  • Air

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Road
  • Television
  • Prejudice

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Problem

• My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Dad
  • Impact
  • Died

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Alone

• Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Dream

• I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Life
  • History
  • Quality

• Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives a sense that the family cares about itself and is proud of itself. And there is the assumption that you, the family member, are obligated to reflect this pride and, if possible, add to it.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Family
  • Black
  • Proud

• Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Single
  • Animal

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • May
  • High
  • Death

• A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
  • People
  • Couple

• If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

  

  Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Horse
  • Individual
  • Affair

• If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sports
  • Mad

• I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Singing

• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Library
  • DIsoder

• Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

  

  James Callis