James Thurber Quotes

Don't get it right, just get it written.

James Thurber

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• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Me
  • Nice
  • More

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Light
  • Beginning
  • Faithful

• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Problem
  • Driving

• One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Day

• English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Present

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

  

  Ted Chiang

• If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Power
  • Judge

• When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Write
  • Shoes
  • Choosing

• I used to take 'Visions of Cody' by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don't really love Kerouac, but that book, you could just open at any page and find something incredible for that day.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Time
  • Book

• It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

  

  Jason Hammel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Important

• What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • People
  • Soul
  • Honesty

• Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Necessity

• Don't get it right, just get it written.

  

  James Thurber