James Herbert Quotes

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

James Herbert

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• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Different
  • Alone
  • New

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Space

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • You
  • Support
  • Tree

• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • War
  • Help
  • Win

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

  

  Han Suyin
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Emotions

• I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • Trying
  • School

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Life
  • Men
  • Husband

• I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • War
  • Support

• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Taken

• I left the band because of a big misconception. I thought I could just take a “back seat” carrying on writing songs without performing!

  

  Jim McCarty Box of Frogs
  • Band
  • Performing
  • Left

• As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Music
  • Long
  • Song

• There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Culture

• We've got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we're not going to have the money to take care of sick people.. or anyone else as far as I'm concerned.. if we don't fix our energy problem right now. I've got an idea what to do. It might not be a perfect idea, but hell, none of my best ideas have been perfect.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

  

  James Herbert