William James Quotes
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I love creative people.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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Proof' is the hallmark of religion.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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That's me, I'm emotional.
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For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
