James McBride Quotes

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ColorQuestionsWishTryingMoral

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

Jim Doyle

GovernmentI AmPeopleBudgetTry

I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.

Jimmy Lai

LifeBusinessStartThinkMy Life

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

John Dyer

WorkEnergyWayMorePaintCleaner

God made me an Indian.

Sitting Bull

GodMeMadeIndian

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Rumi

HeartEyeBodyWayTwoThrough

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

TimeHumanHuman BeingBeingChanged

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

Donald Miller

ReadingBoringWriteFirstRight

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Christopher Hitchens

PeopleEarthGoingSeptemberBeen

Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.

Cheryl Mills

FoodBestEnvironmentCountryNeed

I love a good challenge of looking with new eyes at a tried and true recipe in my recipe Rolodex.

Christina Tosi

LoveGoodEyesChallengeLooking

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Pierre Corneille

LoveReasonEnemiesSworn

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

Phil Klay

YouDistanceStrangeWayWriteAble

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