James Thurber Quotes

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

James Thurber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.

Jidenna

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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.

Jennifer Palmieri

PeoplePoliticalHouseSecurityBeen

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.

Robert Gottlieb

GreatLadyBeenFinestOften

I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over-religious symbolism; like, it said 'John 3:16' and had angels falling over, and it was just this insane - it wasn't that great.

Jeff Baena

GreatSchoolRememberYearSaidKid

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

Jean Pigozzi

Black And WhiteColorsWorldBlack

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

Steven Moffat

SayingYouDramaBoringNothing

If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

Michael Pollan

LightEatingNegativeYouMeatYour

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Judy Gold

CityAudienceStayDevelopComics

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Dennis Prager

PeopleFreeCapitalismSelfishMedia

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

Delta Burke

MeGoNowWantOverActress

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

Clive Owen

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I need to learn how to face challenges.

Shawn Johnson

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