James W. Black Quotes

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Christmas

• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Dark

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Service
  • Grow

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Weakness

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Married
  • Personal
  • Shape

• It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Secret
  • Wear

• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
  • Lived
  • Corner

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.

  

  Irving Babbitt

• There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • People
  • Fear

• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Game
  • Stand

• Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Creativity
  • Belief
  • Ads

• The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Great
  • Food
  • Daughter

• I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

  

  James W. Black
  • Summer