James Merrill Quotes

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

James Merrill

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Man

• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Love
  • Rich

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Good
  • Anger

• I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • School
  • Home
  • Know

• Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Waiting
  • Ego

• If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Response

• I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

  

  James Merrill
  • Parents
  • Communication