James Stockdale Quotes

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

James Stockdale

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• 'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Stars
  • Awesome
  • Dancing

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Market
  • Net

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • City
  • Place
  • Chicago

• It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Interesting
  • Doing
  • Kanye

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • House
  • Reading

• When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Like
  • Road
  • First

• On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Balance

• Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Sun

• The Arctic is among the least understood places on the planet; however, we do know that its landscape is changing and evolving as quickly as cell phones and the Internet.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

• I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Space

• I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

  

  James Stockdale
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Pain