James Watkins Quotes

A lot of the best stories are now being told on television.

James Watkins

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Real
  • Golf

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Long
  • Know
  • Building

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • New York
  • Cities
  • Favorite

• The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Woman
  • Most
  • Humiliating

• My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Proud
  • Woman
  • Vision

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Truth
  • Water
  • Truth Is

• A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Whole
  • Useful
  • Lemon

• Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

  

  Banks
  • Artist
  • Every
  • Heartbeat

• I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth

• I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population . . . set off from real contribution to solving national issues, because of a division on race lines.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • World

• You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • World
  • War
  • History

• When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.

  

  Bernard Lietaer
  • World
  • Problem
  • Growth

• I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

  

  Don Imus
  • Game
  • Professional
  • Basketball

• I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Effort
  • Lies

• We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

  

  Debbi Peterson
  • Thinking
  • Nice

• A lot of the best stories are now being told on television.

  

  James Watkins