James Thurber Quotes

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

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• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • East

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Nature

• There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Strength
  • Intelligence
  • Lot

• I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Running
  • Feel
  • Years

• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Time
  • World
  • Day

• Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.

  

  Maluma
  • Passion
  • Lot
  • Colombia

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Words
  • Me
  • Discipline

• Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Journey

• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• A celebrity has just as much right to speak out as people who hold real jobs. This is America, after all, and you should not be precluded from voicing your opinions just because you sing songs, mouth other peoples' words on a sitcom or, for that matter, spin a giant multi-colored wheel on a game show.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • People
  • Real
  • America

• The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Experience
  • Atheist

• The tired whine of 'But the Republicans are worse' will fall flat as more young Americans take charge of their future and move, with their reenergized elders, toward the Green Party and parallel civic and political movements.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Future
  • Political
  • Party

• It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• 'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Great
  • Eyes

• I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • People
  • Live

• Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Movie
  • Action

• We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • World
  • Live
  • Remember

• You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • People

• Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

  

  James Thurber