James Thurber Quotes

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

James Thurber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961

Topics

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My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

Andra Day

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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

Andre Previn

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Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

Melanne Verveer

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Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

Anja Niedringhaus

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Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

Andy Richter

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Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

Tony Cardenas

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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Robert Browning

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I want to make sure when my team is having difficulties, they can count on me.

Romelu Lukaku

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I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

Jojo Moyes

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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

Bruce Jackson

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Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.

Sergio Marchionne

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I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

Richard Rohr

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