James Garner Quotes
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
-
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
-
Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
-
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
-
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-
The muses visit when I'm lonely.
-
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
-
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
-
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
-
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
-
Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
-
People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
-
I was a campaign widow.
-
You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
-
There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
-
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
-
I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
-
It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
-
You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.
-
My background is Scottish.
-
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
