James Gray Quotes

If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.

James Gray

• Career

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

  

  Randy Moss
  • Life
  • Family
  • Daughter

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

  

  Os Guinness
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Seed

• A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Art
  • Business
  • Focus

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Time
  • War
  • Law

• The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Different
  • Age
  • Create

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Game

• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Father

• I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Imagination

• Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Money

• I was appalled....I hope that our senators will be responsive to our concerns.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Hope
  • Concerns
  • Senator

• If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there's no button being pushed... The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.

  

  James Gray
  • Career