James Thomas Fields Quotes

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,The owl very gravely got down from his perch,Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic(Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

James Thomas Fields

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• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Social
  • Scientist
  • Novelist

• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • History
  • Small
  • Politics

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Friends
  • Career
  • Choose

• My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• I learned that poets aren’t God, but if there is a God...or anything approaching a God...he’s a poet. And a failed one at that.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God

• We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.

  

  Alan Watts
  • World
  • Universe
  • Baby

• For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

  

  Andy Murray
  • Important
  • Player
  • Tennis

• Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable-yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating-than an evolutionary biologist’s proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Kids

• Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Blue

• I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

  

  Elmore Leonard

• And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

  

  David Selby
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Writing
  • Hate

• I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Military

• And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

  

  Brian Lumley

• When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Poetry
  • Picture
  • Moon

• Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously.

  

  Mao Zedong

• To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

  

  Lou Ferrigno
  • Champion

• Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,The owl very gravely got down from his perch,Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic(Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

  

  James Thomas Fields
  • Owl