James Gray Quotes

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

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• There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• I like my world to be calm.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • World
  • Like
  • Calm

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Not Good Enough

• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Try

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Shoulders
  • Fifty
  • Above

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Space
  • Like
  • Film

• A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror
  • Beautiful Woman

• Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • English
  • Sea
  • Island

• Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Poverty
  • Eastern
  • Kentucky

• 'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • History
  • Air

• The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Over
  • August
  • Closer

• The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,Such as fating us to spend the first part of our livesbeing embarrassed by our parents and the last partbeing embarrassed by our childer.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Parents

• Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Book
  • Dog

• Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Been
  • Call
  • Comeback

• I think Joe Madison is right. What we have to do is call him out on every one of these things and then maybe somebody will take the sweet machine away from him.

  

  Bill Press
  • I Think
  • Call
  • Machine

• The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

  

  Frank Langella
  • Believe

• In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Time
  • Live

• But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Justice
  • Sleep
  • Sentimental

• Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Up
  • Moving

• When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

  

  James Gray