James Thurber Quotes

'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

James Thurber

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• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  

  Lactantius
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Living

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • Pen

• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Busy

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

  

  Babyface
  • Done
  • You
  • Kind

• I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • People
  • Worry
  • Marketing

• Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn't he. And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It's enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he's actually read it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Family

• He took my music, but he gave me my name.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Music
  • Names
  • Music Business

• This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Time
  • Great
  • Women

• 'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

  

  James Thurber
  • Proud
  • Smile
  • Squad