James Thurber Quotes

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

  

  Karen Horney
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Knows

• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Food
  • Green
  • Kitchen

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Evil
  • Terrorism

• The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Challenge

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Team
  • Best

• Coffee is my water now.

  

  Becky G
  • Water
  • Coffee
  • Now

• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Success
  • Story
  • Monster

• Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Sports

• I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Good
  • Important
  • Relationship

• We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Future
  • Belief
  • Healing

• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  

  James Thurber
  • Night
  • Small