James Payn Quotes

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

James Payn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 28, 1830 - March 25, 1898

Topics

LifeGoodManFeelPovertyHumanity

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

Jimmy Page

SongSillyTryAlwaysProducerUs

Hairdressers don't judge you. They pretty much accept everything because they've heard everything. They're on your side, like a cheerleader, and there's no competition. They don't want to be you, and you don't want to be them.

Jennifer Flavin

CompetitionJudgeYouWantAccept

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Anatoly Karpov

WorldBackGeographyChessMapIdea

Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery.

Andre Aciman

LoveTimeMoreFarHappensAdultery

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Robert M. Pirsig

MountainDigitalTopGearsCycleHe

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

Michael Chertoff

GoodMoneyStartProcessPolitical

Doubt is the father of invention.

Ambrose Bierce

FatherImaginationDoubtInvention

I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.

Doug Liman

MarriageHeroIdentityActionEasy

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

Dean Karnazes

DayMeDevilSittingOfficeSit

I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'

Christina Grimmie

PeopleSayMeanEverythingMessUp

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

Ciaran Hinds

ArtistsWordUseLightly

They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?

Scott Rudin

FailureYourselfAmericanGivingYou

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