James Lane Allen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
-
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
-
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
-
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
-
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
-
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
-
Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
-
'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
-
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
-
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
-
Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
-
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
-
I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
-
If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
-
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
-
It's what I call 'mental masturbation', when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
-
First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
-
Shame on Congressman Brooks for his lack of faith in President Trump's and Attorney General Sessions' commitment to work together to make America great again.
-
I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.
-
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
-
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
-
We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
