James Fallows Quotes

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

James Fallows

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• Racism is a physical experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Experience
  • Racism
  • Physical

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Model
  • Role

• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Artist

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friend
  • Virtues
  • Knew

• Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Practice

• I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Support
  • Thanks
  • Thankful

• Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • May
  • Job
  • Man

• Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Respect
  • Beauty
  • Aging

• Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Organization
  • Ready
  • Table

• Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children

• Dijkstra probably hates me.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Effect
  • Device

• Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Door

• I was offered the role of the Reverse Flash on 'The Flash' by Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, who co-created the series with Andrew. I said 'yes' immediately because I had worked with those guys before on the show 'Eli Stone.'

  

  Matt Letscher

• One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

  

  James Fallows