James McBride Quotes

My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  

  Ovid
  • More
  • Alcohol
  • Nap

• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Peace
  • Play
  • Development

• I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • True
  • Happy

• Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Opponent
  • Underestimate

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Single
  • Now
  • Mouth

• But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Red

• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Look
  • Economics
  • Alternative

• Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Justice
  • Policy
  • Soldiers

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Pretty
  • Violence
  • Where

• Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Confidence
  • Acting
  • Being

• Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Know
  • Drink

• Most of us get our history through story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • History
  • Story
  • Through

• This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Innocent

• The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Wall
  • Economy
  • Stock

• I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

  

  Matthew Gray Gubler
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Fear

• [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Mind
  • Children
  • School

• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Disease
  • Melancholy
  • Condemn

• My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

  

  James McBride