James Wolcott Quotes
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
-
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
-
I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
-
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
-
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
-
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
-
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
-
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
-
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
-
No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
-
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
-
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
-
Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
-
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
-
It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
-
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
-
I always love China, especially the old China.
-
I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
-
This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.
-
Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
-
My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
-
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
