James Garner Quotes

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

James Garner

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• There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Picture
  • Depression
  • Grief

• Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • End
  • Building

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Confused
  • Mathematics

• There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Instinct
  • Guess

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
  • Shakespeare

• My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Cooking

• Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Think

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Travel
  • Journey
  • End

• I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Comedy

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Lives
  • Worried

• I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where the audience may be quieter. So this means less hecklers, but maybe it also means that people may not be as open about how they felt. I'm not so sure this is especially true of Denmark, but it's what I've heard.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • People
  • May
  • True

• Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

  

  George Will
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Argument

• In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.

  

  Ashton Holmes
  • Men
  • Different
  • Country

• I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

  

  Casey Abrams
  • Musical

• Replying to the question of the presenter: 'where did the name 'Sex Pistols' come from, who thought this name up?' Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up
  • Remember
  • History

• There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

  

  James Garner