James Thurber Quotes

My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Thurber

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Olympics
  • Qualify
  • World Championships

• The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Die
  • Spirit
  • Attitude

• When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Positive
  • Emotional

• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Nervous

• Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • People
  • History
  • True

• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Perception
  • Mystery

• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Need

• We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Society
  • Better

• And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Colors

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Walk
  • Comfortable
  • Awkward

• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Political
  • Jobs
  • Ambitious

• My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mom

• When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Structure
  • Ear

• Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Remember
  • Purpose

• Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Fool

• In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Grow
  • Wood

• I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Garden

• Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.

  

  John Quelch
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Insurance

• What is really important is what you learn after thinking you know it all.

  

  Waite Phillips
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Know It All

• Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Risk
  • Existence
  • Vocabulary

• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  

  Stella Benson
  • People
  • Found
  • Doors

• My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

  

  James Thurber