William James Quotes

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Health
  • Care

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Blue
  • Valley

• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Day
  • Find

• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Style
  • King

• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feel
  • Blue
  • Start

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Money
  • Red
  • Blue

• But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Red
  • Blue

• I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

  

  E. B. White
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Shadow

• Lord I love my man, tell the world I do I love my man, tell the world I do But when he mistreats me Makes me feel so blue.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • World
  • Blue

• O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 22Survey our empire, and behold our home!These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Home
  • Free
  • Dark

• A lot of the things that happened to me came out of the blue, but I'm exactly the same person now as I was when I was sick. I'm still a very optimistic person.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Sick
  • Blue
  • Optimistic

• My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Something

• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Die
  • Dying

• I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

  

  William James
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