Frank James Quotes

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Values

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Impossible

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Death
  • Man
  • Trouble

• I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Good
  • Goal

• We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Humanity
  • Win
  • Battle

• It is possible for political forces to agree.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Political
  • Possible
  • Agree

• I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Money
  • Fool

• He abandonado la indigente necesidad de vivir. Vivo sin ella.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Long

• All my children inherited perfect pitch.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Children
  • Perfect

• I cast unusual people in my movies.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People

• Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Drink
  • Birthday
  • Tonight

• Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

  

  David Novak

• I was overwhelmed when people started to know who I was.

  

  Katie Stevens
  • People

• Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Way
  • Days

• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  

  Frank James