Storm Jameson (Margaret Storm Jameson) Quotes

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Career

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Today
  • Year
  • Back

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Writing
  • May
  • Truth

• War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

  

  Maimonides
  • Truth
  • You
  • Accept

• I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Back
  • Republican

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Truth

• 'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Truth

• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Help

• Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Truth

• I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • People
  • Different
  • Truth

• Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Equal
  • Love It

• In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

  

  Socrates
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Glory

• 'Sister,' quoth Flesh, 'what liv'st thou onNothing but Meditation?

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Sister
  • Meditation

• Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Truth
  • Back
  • Exhilarating