James Earl Jones Quotes

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

James Earl Jones

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• Tone can be as important as text.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Important
  • Text
  • Tone

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Society

• Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
  • Smart
  • Lawyer

• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Mean

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Old
  • Clothes
  • Lady

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Power
  • Nature

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Need
  • Back
  • Drop

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Hand
  • Poverty
  • Look

• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Road
  • Open
  • Cycling

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • You
  • Control
  • Story

• This is a Christian country and Christian teaching is very clear on these matters and I am extremely concerned that young people today are being bombarded with literature which suggests that a homosexual relationship is the same as a heterosexual relationship, which it is not.

  

  Gerald Howarth
  • Relationship
  • Matter
  • Homosexual

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Learn
  • Physics
  • Metaphysics

• Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Children
  • School
  • Laughter