James St. James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
-
I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
-
You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
-
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
-
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
-
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
-
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
-
Mister Cee's a legend, man.
-
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
-
You never get every job you want.
-
So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
-
If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
-
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
-
My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
-
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
-
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
-
Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
-
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
-
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
-
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
-
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
-
When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
-
I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
