James Howell Quotes

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

James Howell

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• When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • World
  • Debate
  • Plants

• If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Same

• I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Lyrics
  • Fan
  • Pink Floyd

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Know
  • Face

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Very
  • Actually
  • Deliberate

• I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • School
  • Like
  • Discipline

• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Think
  • Memory

• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Done
  • Think
  • Myself

• I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Person
  • Armani
  • Dolce & Gabbana

• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Action
  • Name
  • Without

• I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Argue
  • Mitt Romney

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Members
  • Council
  • Membership

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Big
  • Hip Hop
  • Approach

• We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Stop
  • Moving
  • Japanese

• For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Attractive
  • Neglect

• Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Book
  • Powerful

• In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

  

  Epictetus
  • Pay
  • Misdeeds
  • Long Run

• The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

  

  James Howell