Storm Jameson (Margaret Storm Jameson) Quotes

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • American
  • Political
  • Treat

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Moment
  • Eating
  • Breathing

• When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Working
  • Start
  • Something

• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Power
  • Leadership

• It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Country
  • Hard
  • Record

• Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Ambition

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Hobbies

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Attitude

• One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Character
  • Horror
  • Mexican

• We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Nature
  • Childhood
  • Transformation

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Life
  • Cruelty
  • Gentle