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James Thurber

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CHARLES F. GLASSMAN Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
JAMES THURBER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn&#...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN His right hemisphere had died. He knew so many people who had died that in his present state of diss...
IAN MCEWAN My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Long live king Jaron. If he leads us half as well as he entertains us, then Carthya has a truly grea...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN He's definitely got the work ethic and ability to play in the big leagues for a long time. As long a...
JUSTIN KNOEDLER It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be k...
DENNIS KUCINICH I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by ...
OMAR DORSEY its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber
R.J. PALACIO That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER But, perhaps, it's where his greatness lies. He has been the most humble servant of the Indian crick...
KAPIL DEV Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet D...
JOHN GREEN There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on...
RAYMOND CHANDLER This is too much reality for a Friday.
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MICHAEL CHARLTON On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the t...
MICHAEL FOREMAN Many Christians live as if salvation is the only reason Jesus died. Christ died so we would die to s...
WILLIAM BRANKS What might we know about these chemicals 20 years from now? ... We can't continue to pretend that as...
BARBARA BRENNER Brant is coming out of his shell as a vocal leader. I knew we had something special when he committe...
DAN MCCARNEY Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not co...
RUCKETT What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named L...
WAYNE DYER I've seen that before. A couple of years ago against Philadelphia he made that same move. He's got a...
BRYAN SMOLINSKI as long as he put something on there.
JENNIFER BENNETT Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which ca...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL To think that he died for something that he believed in rather than something he didn't believe in m...
JAY GALLAGHER And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he di...
BIBLE Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption....
W. H. AUDEN As long as a human being worries about when he will die,and what he has that is his,all of his works...
KABIR In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)
ROBERT BYRNE According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant exc...
JAMES JOYCE In my 20 years as an editor, there's a long way between that and making stuff up or lying.
JOHN VAUGHAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may ...
DANIEL DENNETT To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to ...
OCTAVIO PAZ Ed is a visionary. He has a very long-term point of view and he knows exactly what he believes in. Y...
ROGER ALTMAN The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American...
ROSS CHEIT The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to...
EDGAR ALLAN POE While they have made impressive progress, we believe that the sales cycle can be as long as two year...
HOLLY BECKER I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY If Jesus were to ask me, as He did that poor demoniac in the Gospel: "What is your name?" I too woul...
RANIERO CANTALAMESSA It's for the other lads as well as for James that I'll keep fighting to get my son the help he needs...
MARK PIOTROWSKI Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good ...
STEPHEN JAY GOULD Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON We get sales leads from many different directions, and we needed a system that could manage those au...
DAVID BLACK Sometimes, I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND They're asking us to roll back the clock 11 years. There are paramedics who have served for 20 years...
CRAIG MATTHEWS As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
STEPHAN KANFER I have known Jerry a long time and I think this was a serious change in his life, ... Never before h...
MEL WHITE It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to i...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes...
C. S. LEWIS Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light ...
MARCEL PROUST The most other guys have is 20 to 25 years experience. He's been around twice as long.
PAUL SWEENEY I don't believe he should be fired. I believe, yes, there should be some sort of consequence for wha...
SEAN ALLEN Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; out...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the r...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...
SAUL BELLOW For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affa...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employ...
ANNE M. MULCAHY Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
GERMAN PROVERB You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promi...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and...
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ANDY STOLL There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and tho...
PETER JACKSON He leads as a good friend, not as a parental figure. He leads as an equal. He doesn't put himself on...
ANDREW FERENCE James Lee Witt is giving his seal of approval to some companies, and I question whether that is appr...
DANIELLE BRIAN Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one min...
ELIE WIESEL A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as su...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I p...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Blake is scheduled to go about as long as he can, and we'll go from there.
STEVE SPURRIER It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will pr...
GEORGE MOORE A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The thing that's extremely irritating to us is that in 20, 21 years, there never has been a complain...
BETTY LUTTIER Clearly there is a pattern of deceit, ... He (Brewer) crafted his story to try to imply James Byrd w...
JAMES GRAY Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or whe...
HENRY B. EYRING A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
JEAN ROSTAND His career was only eight months long, and during that time we had moved from the ghetto to an upper...
BOB MORALES My father died/ many years ago,/ and yet when something special/ happens to me,/ I talk to him secre...
NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly ...
NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ It's a disgrace on us all that he was allowed to stay in office as long as he did
DAVID OWEN As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...
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ADAM SMITH There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam
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JON BON JOVI Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

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"Yes, it did," said th...
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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