James Geary Quotes
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
Quotes to Explore
-
Broadway is really my life.
-
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
-
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
-
'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
-
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
-
I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
-
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
-
The point of the future is that anything can happen.
-
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
-
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
-
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
-
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
-
I have never gotten my nails done.
-
I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
-
When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
-
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
-
I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
-
When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
-
Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.
-
I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.
-
I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
-
I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
-
I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
-
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
