James Thurber Quotes

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

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• If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Iran

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Men
  • Child
  • Fact

• I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Dove

• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Why
  • Want
  • Me

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Always

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Why can't I just eat my waffle?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • Just
  • Eat

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• We are participators in bringing into being not only the near and here but the far away and long ago. We are in this sense, participators in bringing about something of the universe in the distant past and if we have one explanation for what's happening in the distant past why should we need more?

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Long
  • Why
  • Past

• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

  

  James Turrell
  • American
  • Light

• Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.

  

  Jordan Klepper
  • Good
  • American
  • Fear

• All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

  

  James Thurber
  • Men
  • Why
  • Running