James Stephens Quotes

Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.

James Stephens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 9, 1882 - December 26, 1950

Topics

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Producer Michael Davies - who did 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' - offered me a TV show, but I turned it down. I wasn't negotiating: It just didn't sound like a good idea. Then he offered me another show, and I said, 'No thanks' again. When I heard about 'Win Ben Stein's Money,' I thought, 'OK, that sounds like a good idea.'

Jimmy Kimmel

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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

Jessica Szohr

PhoneFirstOutDateJustPull

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

John Garfield

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The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.

Matt Mullenweg

WorldMobileJustDefinitionVery

I'm quite lazy.

Ang Lee

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I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

PerformanceSongThinkBetterMagic

'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

January Jones

MenMeTelevisionMadDoneNever

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Joni Mitchell

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I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

Chris Lowell

RomanticHopelessWillMoreAlways

I have spent a very long time in Cate's shadow - she casts a pretty big one. I have always had the support of my family and coach, and they have always stressed we are completely different people and will achieve things in our own time. They stressed I would get my moment. I just had to be patient.

Bronte Campbell

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I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.

Allen Coulter

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What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

Timothy Noah

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