James Earl Jones quote: "When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that."

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd ...
JAMES EARL JONES

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
JAMES EARL JONES

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens shou...
JAMES EARL JONES

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
JAMES EARL JONES

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl J...
JAMES EARL JONES

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better ...
JAMES EARL JONES

Tears are words the heart can't express
JAMES EARL JONES

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not ...
JAMES EARL JONES

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me ...
JAMES EARL JONES

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gott...
JAMES EARL JONES

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
JAMES EARL JONES

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutter...
JAMES EARL JONES

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights moveme...
JAMES EARL JONES

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal w...
JAMES EARL JONES

If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, lets all get wasted and have the time of our...
JAMES EARL JONES

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this socie...
JAMES EARL JONES

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white communit...
JAMES EARL JONES

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ...
JAMES EARL JONES

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written wor...
JAMES EARL JONES

He observed neighborhoods, people in neighborhoods, and he learned how they talk. I think that is th...
JAMES EARL JONES

you probably know more 'Star Wars' quotes than I do.
JAMES EARL JONES

I don't have one or two. Do you have one?
JAMES EARL JONES

What if we do go to some other planet, discover it has life, and then not be able to get the baby sn...
JAMES EARL JONES

Theaters like (the Landmark), I hope they will forever be salvaged. Long live this theater!
JAMES EARL JONES

A dog and a beer.
JAMES EARL JONES

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
JAMES EARL JONES

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilo...
JAMES EARL JONES

And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base...
JAMES EARL JONES

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
JAMES EARL JONES

My main gripe with suicide bombers, besides the fact that they usually aren't on my side of an issue...
JAMES EARL JONES

Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of t...
JAMES EARL JONES

I'm shocked and deeply saddened, and I send my deepest sympathies to the Cosby family.
JAMES EARL JONES

I didn't get the job because I look like a lion. I got the job because I can read the words on the p...
JAMES EARL JONES

The simple beauty of August's words struck me profoundly. The lines just seemed to have a life of th...
JAMES EARL JONES

I've learned that racism will not be taken as a given. I don't think we should ever accept it.
JAMES EARL JONES

We are united not only in our grief, but also in our resolve to build a better world. Our spirit is ...
JAMES EARL JONES

It seems like every week we hear of new excitement or response from celebrities. Last week, James Ea...
JAMES EARL JONES

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers....
JAMES EARL JONES

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
JAMES EARL JONES

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arth...
JAMES EARL JONES

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sittin...
JAMES EARL JONES

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I s...
JAMES EARL JONES

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a far...
JAMES EARL JONES

[Quotable:] The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by li...
JAMES EARL JONES

Ray. People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up...
JAMES EARL JONES

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...
JAMES JONES

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtu...
JAMES JONES

And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES

I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its ma...
JAMES JONES

When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was cour...
JAMES JONES

If they can remember their address, they can do it properly.
JAMES JONES

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be...
JAMES JONES

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of t...
JAMES JONES

Judge Michael was a wonderful person and will be sorely missed by his colleagues on the bench and th...
JAMES JONES

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dus...
JAMES JONES

In my old age I have come to believe that the whole of written history is miscreated and flawed by t...
JAMES JONES

And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment sh...
JAMES JONES

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...
JAMES JONES

There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fati...
JAMES JONES

I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it."

JAMES JONES

They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a l...
JAMES JONES

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...
JAMES JONES

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundre...
JAMES JONES

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to...
JAMES JONES

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the...
JAMES JONES

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking go...
JAMES JONES

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
JAMES JONES

Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty ye...
JAMES JONES

But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan...
JAMES JONES

All right, all
JAMES JONES

The little red eyes glared at Prew challenging, almost hoping for some disagreement that would force...
JAMES JONES

Maylon Stark was medium-built and husky. That was the only word to fit him, husky. He had a husky fa...
JAMES JONES

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...
JAMES JONES

And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway train...
JAMES JONES

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. ...
JAMES JONES

Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.
JAMES JONES

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...
JAMES JONES

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve....
JAMES JONES

Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very su...
JAMES JONES

Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitt...
JAMES JONES

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be...
JAMES JONES

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yours...
JAMES JONES

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
JAMES JONES

He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate t...
JAMES JONES

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very ...
JAMES JONES

This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and ...
JAMES JONES

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue...
JAMES JONES

If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
JAMES JONES

And when that happens, Mexico will have really leapt forward to first-world respectability.
JAMES JONES

What President Zedillo has tried to do is to make the campaign and the election day counting both fa...
JAMES JONES

I'm pretty sure I'll get a chance to showcase some of those talents that my family members don't kno...
JAMES JONES

They just tell you work every day as if you're playing, because your opportunity will come. Every pl...
JAMES JONES

I like the way they play. They get up and down the floor, which is something I like. But more import...
JAMES JONES

We had these guys, but special teams hurt us a lot. We couldn't stop them as well sometimes on defen...
JAMES JONES

Over the past half-dozen years they've spent almost $2 billion in various kinds of safeguards, to ma...
JAMES JONES

We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in...
JAMES JONES

I'm a setup guy and tonight I made a couple of shots and got us going. We work well together and hav...
JAMES JONES

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It'...
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER

I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president.
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've go...
EARL WEAVER

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
EARL WILSON

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I ...
EARL WEAVER

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to ...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bea...
EARL WARREN

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...
EARL WARREN

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
EARL WILSON

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
EARL WILSON

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
EARL WILSON

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
EARL WILSON

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we...
EARL WILSON

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
EARL WILSON

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
EARL WILSON

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt...
EARL WILSON

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
EARL WILSON

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
EARL WILSON

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER

When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER

To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER

There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words...
EARL WEAVER

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who playe...
EARL WEAVER

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi...
EARL WEAVER

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's lean...
EARL WEAVER

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smar...
EARL WEAVER

There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're mak...
EARL WEAVER

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That'...
EARL WEAVER

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
EARL WEAVER

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
EARL WEAVER

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
EARL WEAVER

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always t...
EARL WEAVER

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
EARL WEAVER

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
EARL WEAVER

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any s...
EARL WARREN

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public educa...
EARL WARREN

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
EARL WARREN

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were convers...
EARL WARREN

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we lea...
EARL WARREN

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first...
EARL WARREN

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be ...
EARL WARREN

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
EARL WARREN

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
EARL WARREN

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page ...
EARL WARREN

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
EARL WARREN

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is ...
EARL WARREN

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the ...
EARL WARREN

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has n...
EARL WARREN

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...
EARL WARREN

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ...
EARL WARREN

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...
EARL WARREN

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's n...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

All rappers are princesses like me.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I t...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of cha...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
EARL SWEATSHIRT

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager t...
EARL SCRUGGS

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's pa...
EARL SCRUGGS

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times wh...
EARL SCRUGGS

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
EARL SCRUGGS

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
EARL SCRUGGS

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one ...
EARL SCRUGGS

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophon...
EARL SCRUGGS

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pi...
EARL SCRUGGS

I like drums, really, if they're under control.
EARL SCRUGGS

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very...
EARL SCRUGGS

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
EARL NIGHTINGALE

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go togethe...
EARL NIGHTINGALE

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

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