James Thurber Quotes

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

James Thurber

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Die
  • Ship

• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Dare
  • Totally

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Learn
  • Enemy

• The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Rights
  • Second

• Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Drama
  • Surgery
  • Costume

• I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Novels

• If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • World
  • American
  • Free

• The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • Strong
  • Land

• I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Family
  • I Can
  • Holidays

• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• When I was in Denver, guys came into the team, and we started at a pretty high level.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Team

• I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto

  

  T-Pain
  • Up

• Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Science

• So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Doubt

• Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul
  • Humanity
  • Developed

• What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Character
  • Play
  • Day

• When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Grows

• A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Guy

• One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

  

  James Thurber