James Wolcott Quotes

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.

James Wolcott

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• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Light
  • Years
  • Competition

• Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Screen
  • Cringe
  • Pouty

• I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Down

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Want
  • Best
  • Hip Hop

• Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Leave

• I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Try
  • Read

• Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Been

• I'm a loner.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Loner

• My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Movie

• I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Love
  • She

• Vitare, plagas in amoris ne iaciamur,non ita difficile est quam captum retibus ipsisexire et validos Veneris perrumpere nodos.

  

  Lucretius

• It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Kiss

• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • World
  • Soul
  • Single

• I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

  

  David Maraniss
  • World
  • Book
  • Beginning

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

  

  Marilyn French
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Insanity

• In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

  

  William Feather
  • Baseball
  • Organization
  • Prize

• If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.

  

  James Wolcott