My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not the person who went through the experience.


James Frey

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing...
TAYLOR SWIFT
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ear...
FRITZ LANG
I feel sorry for those people who went through that, but this is not my dad's character. He is not t...
MARLON WILLIAMSON
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am d...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a...
CRISTIANO RONALDO
I lost my sister and that showed me how precious life really is. We went through that as a family. I...
LARGE LUTUI
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessl...
ANNA QUINDLEN
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the perso...
KATHRYN STOCKETT
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to ...
ELIE WIESEL
I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
THE HELP
I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
THE HELP
A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire...
MENA SUVARI
Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the s...
WILLIAM JAMES MAYO
The ground reality is that there is no beauty created in writing for others’ MIND unless and until...
ANUJ SOMANY
I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin...
JAMES DURBIN
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in m...
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is a...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER THERESA
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
I'm not a bad person. It's just me moving forward. I'm not looking back on the past and the things I...
JAMAL LEWIS
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me bel...
LATOYA JACKSON
I made a mistake, which I deeply regret...
CORNEL WEST
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort thro...
PICO IYER
No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes y...
MORIAH PEARSON
There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us...
RANBIR KAPOOR
I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and ...
USHER
I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reck...
KIP MOORE
I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who woul...
SUZANNE COLLINS
We do know that she is a well-respected person and a veteran. This is not someone who was on their f...
SKIP DILLARD
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - of...
CALLIE KHOURI
When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min...
HENRY B. EYRING
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
YVONNE CRAIG
The most coward person in my opinion is the one who blame their failure on another person, and then ...
HASIB SHAHRIAR AZIZI
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I...
LOIS LOWRY
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm goin...
BETHANY HAMILTON
I do not mind who takes over as long as that person has the necessary football administration experi...
FIDELIS MHONDA
My true thoughts, and my true feelings, that is what makes me the person I am… it is all I have. T...
RACHAEL VONROSSBACH
For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't go...
YVONNE PIERRE
Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person.
JOHN GREEN
Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my...
ANDREA BOCELLI
Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID
Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps m...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has ...
ALAIN DE BOTTON
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY
Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply,...
CEELO GREEN
I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a...
PHILIP K. DICK
I am always asked, "Who was/is your mentor?" One person.... Howard Lorber. He has given me the advic...
PAMELA LIEBMAN
James Lewis was the first athlete I ever coached who really touched my heart. He was a special, spec...
DALE MAYS
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My favorite part was meeting the author. She is one of my favorite authors, and I liked the book, so...
CAROLINE LELAND
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
H. G. BISSINGER
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I tho...
DAVID SIMON
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to g...
, "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS"
I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in...
JIMMY CARTER
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies a...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to...
RACHEL BLOOM
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by t...
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ev...
HENRY FORD
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they hav...
EMILY BRONTë
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown...
ROBERT FALCON SCOTT
One person. All it takes is one person. I couldn’t save Harry for Lily. So now I give my allegianc...
JACK THORNE
To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person wh...
KENNY ORTEGA
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.
MAHER ARAR
My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to...
JOE NICHOLS
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times whe...
LEBRON JAMES
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympatheti...
CAROLYN MACKLER
I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love fo...
NICOLAS SARKOZY
Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.
BUBBA SPARXXX
All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d r...
ANNA WHITE
I prefer to love the one my heart has chosen for me, and I won’t regret it
M.F. MOONZAJER
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
My head says forget it, my heart says I’ll regret it, and what my stomach tells me, I should not i...
CHRIS DISANO DAVENPORT
When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to st...
SAM ABELL
I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my ...
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
To have the guts to say what needs to be said means that people care enough to say it. It is when pe...
GARY F EVANS...
For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH
My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mi...
MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY
All the responsibility was on me, because I went into the studio without my label saying, 'Work with...
HILARY DUFF
All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN
I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the ...
GINNIFER GOODWIN
I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, an...
LOBSANG TENZIN
In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better,...
VENUS WILLIAMS
I've never chucked nothing. It hurts badly but the one thing I'm determined to do is see it through ...
STEVE BRUCE
A person can use his mind when working on matter; then logic is a great instrument. And the same per...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH
I was in my bed scrolling through Instagram. It had been about a month since my audition. And Marvel...
TOM HOLLAND
I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze. Winding
VICTORIA AVEYARD

More James Frey

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live...
JAMES FREY
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
JAMES FREY
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to ma...
JAMES FREY
I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.
JAMES FREY
And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our ...
JAMES FREY
If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I woul...
JAMES FREY
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about i...
JAMES FREY
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me wh...
JAMES FREY
United HealthCare does not and will not raise premium costs to cover the cost of business transactio...
JAMES FREY
He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and...
JAMES FREY
The first time I saw you, my heart fell. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. The third time fo...
JAMES FREY
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. ...
JAMES FREY
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
JAMES FREY
Everyone's memory is subjective. If in three weeks we were both interviewed about what went on here ...
JAMES FREY
Good words to be reminded of,
JAMES FREY
With this merger, PacifiCare members will have the benefit of this technology years ahead of when we...
JAMES FREY
The first thing I said was, 'Oh my God,'
JAMES FREY
When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken.
JAMES FREY
I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho...
JAMES FREY
Sometimes skulls are thick.Sometimes hearts are vacant.Sometimes words don't work.
JAMES FREY
So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify...
JAMES FREY
The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth o...
JAMES FREY
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is bio...
JAMES FREY
The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...
JAMES FREY
I don't think it is a novel. I still think it's a memoir.
JAMES FREY
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is no...
JAMES FREY
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come ...
JAMES FREY
When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fi...
JAMES FREY
There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honest...
JAMES FREY
A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to...
JAMES FREY
The secret to kicking ass in dumbshit Hollywood... Every time you meet someone, make a fucking impre...
JAMES FREY
I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
JAMES FREY
I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is t...
JAMES FREY
I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can ...
JAMES FREY
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.
I broke something, Old Man.
How badly i...
JAMES FREY
You've never been in love?
Not even close.
And no ones ever in love with you?
Men always...
JAMES FREY
Sometimes skulls are thick.
Sometimes hearts are vacant.
Sometimes words don't work.
JAMES FREY
1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.
JAMES FREY
All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do...
JAMES FREY
This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll d...
JAMES FREY
Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
JAMES FREY
When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at y...
JAMES FREY
I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them brea...
JAMES FREY
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
JAMES FREY
I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familia...
JAMES FREY
When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is an...
AMBER FREY
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
AMBER FREY
Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.
GLENN FREY
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a...
THOMAS FREY
He was easy-going. He was easy to talk to. He made me feel comfortable,
AMBER FREY
Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....
AMBER FREY
Fifteen- and 18-year-old women e-mail me and say what an influence and impact I've had in their life...
AMBER FREY
I've had to choose my battles ...,
AMBER FREY
There's things during the trial that were out of my control, ... At times there's things in our live...
AMBER FREY
I just wanted to see her!
AMBER FREY
I feel there's something I have to share and I feel almost like I need to. There are so many women w...
AMBER FREY
Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few wee...
AMBER FREY
[He told her that he would be willing to raise her daughter] as his own, ... wouldn't have the burde...
AMBER FREY
While classrooms will be in use for many years to come, their value will diminish quickly as the onl...
THOMAS FREY
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've...
GLENN FREY
As we continue down the path of automation, virtually every city will have 24-hour convenience store...
THOMAS FREY
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to ...
GLENN FREY
Since young people would much rather play fast-action, rapidly advancing video games, and gambling l...
THOMAS FREY
My contention is that most students get distracted by music and social media because our current sta...
THOMAS FREY
Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive...
THOMAS FREY
I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in t...
GLENN FREY
You're the first kid on the block when you come into some of these neighborhoods and it's not always...
WILLIAM FREY
We believe the episode of acute mania may be a byproduct, possibly, of the medication he was taking ...
STEVEN FREY
I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter...
GLENN FREY
I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.
GLENN FREY
pink lady caramel apple.
AMBER FREY
What is on the top of the agenda this year is energy security. Second, climate change regulation and...
CHRISTOPHE FREY
The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we wer...
GLENN FREY
Economists always say there is a supply and demand equilibrium.
WILLIAM FREY
Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.
DALTON FREY
I have moved on. I have moved forward.
AMBER FREY
For example, Ireland is extremely competitive in their financial incentives to attract businesses an...
BILLY FREY
We're not in the animal feed business. We're in the food business. And people all around the world -...
BILLY FREY
We're basically out of space. So if we want to do this stuff, it's going to take more equipment. Thi...
BILLY FREY
My Misty Ghost- "Once, I saw a beautiful rainbow in the sky, and then, poof, it was gone. Just like ...
LILY FREY
It's a symptom of the new divide in housing costs between the expensive, congested, urbanized states...
WILLIAM FREY
I like it here. It's kind of like playing off-Broadway.
GLENN FREY
Two more days until Amber Frey's coming! Two more days until Amber Frey's coming!
AMBER FREY
Suburbs are getting suburbs at this point.
WILLIAM FREY
I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all t...
GLENN FREY
If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would...
GLENN FREY
These are two major waves in America. One is the black return to the South. The other is Hispanics g...
WILLIAM FREY
That's the kind of state that is going to have to deal with quick transition,
WILLIAM FREY
Immigration is good for the United States ... it's important for us to keep our doors open, but we n...
WILLIAM FREY
What you've got here is a mass movement of a whole city that is going to take a long time to revive ...
WILLIAM FREY
These were very reluctant migrants.
WILLIAM FREY
Basically, Louisiana has been a poster child for brain drain, especially whites with college degrees...
WILLIAM FREY
If anyone has a desire to go back home, they do,
WILLIAM FREY
Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housin...
WILLIAM FREY
There is this 'Go East' mentality in California. Even people who have lived there most of their live...
WILLIAM FREY
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the ...
GLENN FREY
My songs grow on people - like warts.
GLENN FREY
Can I tell you how amazing you are? I need a better vocabulary or book or thesaurus or something to ...
AMBER FREY
It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They shou...
GLENN FREY
Thank you everybody, and welcome to the Eagles California Tour, ... on a hot and sultry night in Sal...
GLENN FREY
It's the lure of easy money, It's got a very strong appeal.
GLENN FREY
The first one is usually the best pitch, so that's the one I look for and that's the one I go for al...
JACKIE FREY
We do a lot of emergency preparedness work for families and communities on how to prepare for disast...
JACKIE FREY
I coordinate with the eight cities in Twin Falls county to bring their resources together in the eve...
JACKIE FREY
We've been writing some different stuff - odd time signatures - so it's a little bit darker with dif...
JASON FREY
Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some...
JASON FREY
We'll bring a bunch of energy to that show.
JASON FREY
It would be a big headache, a big problem.
LARRY FREY
I just don't understand how they can own those big lakes like that.
LARRY FREY
We have to consider what the impact is going to be across the street. We haven't granted rezoning re...
JENNIFER FREY
It's a difficult piece of property to categorize with single-family zoning and steep banks abutting ...
JENNIFER FREY
A lot of the easy stuff, most of the large tracts, have been developed in the township. That leaves ...
JENNIFER FREY
We have identified 14 areas that we want to talk about to determine the best use. It's been 10 years...
JENNIFER FREY
Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES
I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES
Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES
We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES
I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES
As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES
I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES
When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES
I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES
Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES
War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT
National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE
Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES
My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES
Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES
I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES
I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES
Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES
I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES
You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES
It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES
I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES
Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES
I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES
Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES
A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES
If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES
I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES
I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER
It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES
In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES
If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH
But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE
We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI
An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN
The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN
I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN
I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN