James Thurber Quotes

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

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• I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Decision
  • Research
  • Alcohol

• I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Play
  • Characters

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Happiness

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Friends
  • Surround Yourself

• I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Football
  • Anything

• I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Kids

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Man
  • Single
  • Slave

• Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • People
  • Science
  • Situation

• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Die
  • Courage
  • More

• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Choices
  • More
  • Far

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

  

  Guan Moye
  • Write
  • Souls
  • Audiences

• I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

  

  James Wan

• Every mission has life-or-death moments.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Life
  • Death
  • Moments

• I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Way
  • Own
  • Prefer

• I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

  

  James Thurber