James Thurber Quotes

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

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• Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

  

  Candace Kita
  • May
  • Political
  • Support

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Different
  • Circumstances

• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Light
  • Effort

• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Last

• In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Golden

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Competition
  • Stand
  • Speed

• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Women
  • Reality

• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Modern
  • Doors

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Home
  • Like
  • Popular

• I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Alles, alles kann einer vergessen, nur nicht sich selbst, sein eigenes Wesen.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Great

• Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

  

  John T. Flynn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

  

  James Thurber
  • Believe
  • Long