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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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
Yoko Ono
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
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
Yvonne De Carlo
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
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
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Edgard Varese
I'm a loner.
Larry Bird
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
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
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
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
There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
Alan Keyes
There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.
Yvon Chouinard
I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.
Sasha Alexander
Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
Malik Bendjelloul
I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
Ed Oxenbould
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
