James McBride Quotes

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1957

Topics

HomeTimePeopleYouHarmonyGo

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

WomenPeopleRichDoingEnoughYou

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

Jesmyn Ward

FamilyMotherHomeThoughtSitting

We can all remember a time when someone encouraged us and made a difference in our lives. It may be just a moment, but this encouragement could last a lifetime.

Megan Shull

TimeMomentSomeoneRememberMayUs

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Andrew Eldritch

MusicFriendsHearRecordHouses

My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.

Robert Lefkowitz

FatherMotherMeImperfectionFlaws

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Maurice Strong

Make A DifferenceYouAcceptWill

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

Michael Caine

PeopleLovedInterestingPlayMore

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

SportsBestWinningChampionYou

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

Roger Federer

HeroChildhoodI AmProudHimUp

In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.

Mary Quant

FamilyCarPastDriveEveningYou

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Jose Marti

IdeasObstaclesImpossibleReach

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

Dick Cavett

SoulEarlyKnowingMuseSoldierUp

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