James Cash Penney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
-
I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
-
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
-
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
-
Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
-
I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
-
Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
-
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
-
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
-
I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
-
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
-
I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
-
I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
-
I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
-
God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
-
Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
-
We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book. We have characters that never appeared in the book. We have a lot of events that didn't quite happen the same way in the book. But there's so much in the book, stuff we've passed in the timeline that I really thought was awesome, that I really wanted to get to.
-
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
-
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
-
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
-
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
-
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
