James Wolcott Quotes

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

James Wolcott

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• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Money
  • Organization
  • Cutting

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • End
  • Daily
  • Disability

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Right
  • Intelligence

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Just
  • Horror
  • Watch

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Home
  • Want
  • Independent

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• I can't imagine, I can't get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrestling

• Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Deep

• The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Service
  • Animal
  • Sweet

• I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

  

  Marlon James
  • People
  • Character

• How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

  

  James Wolcott
  • Trying
  • Passion