James Murphy Quotes

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

James Murphy

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• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hell
  • He
  • Inquisitive

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
  • Coach

• I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Food
  • Cold
  • Sick

• Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Try
  • Something
  • Carry

• I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Work
  • Right
  • Wanted

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Machine
  • Options
  • Sophistication

• Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Being
  • Reporting

• Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Parents

• From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children

• That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course ...youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Time
  • House
  • Amazing

• The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, let the blackguard Paine say what he will; it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man.

  

  John Adams
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Christian

• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Space

• It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • House

• Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• Consider incompleteness as a verb.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Consider
  • Verb
  • Incompleteness

• I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Die

• When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Regret
  • Get Older

• I think I'm designed to regret everything.

  

  James Murphy
  • Regret