James T. Farrell Quotes

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

James T. Farrell

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• What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Help
  • Day

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Same

• I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Walk

• When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Car
  • Ignore

• I'm not going to go out there and have these slugfests, but I'll go out there and dominate my opponent. That's what I do in my fight.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

  

  Philip Schultz
  • People
  • Life
  • Ambition

• I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Done
  • Truth

• I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

  

  James Meade Kutless

• I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Nature
  • California

• One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

  

  Piers Anthony

• When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Funny

• I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Good

• Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Rock

• A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People

• Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Made
  • Lasts
  • Critics

• I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Hands
  • Laughing
  • Various

• I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones.

  

  Gareth Chilcott
  • Fifteen
  • Followed

• Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Reality
  • Fashion
  • I Feel Like

• 'Either you run the day, or the day runs you.' Hope y'all had a good one.

  

  Aaron Hernandez
  • Good
  • Day
  • Run

• Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

  

  James T. Farrell
  • Fifteen
  • Verge
  • Studs Lonigan