William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
-
They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
-
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
-
You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
-
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
-
People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
-
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
-
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
-
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
-
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
-
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
-
I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
-
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
-
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
-
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
-
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
-
I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
-
These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
-
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.
-
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
-
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
