James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

James Fenimore Cooper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851

Topics

PowerLawSocietyLongStronger

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey

LearningInterestingYouCreating

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Jewel

BadTheoryOnlyIdealThenEver

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

Matthew Quick

TeacherTimeJobSchoolParents

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

Amanda Seyfried

MusicSoulSingingSongYouActing

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

Tom Steyer

ControlWorldTryStuffSeparate

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

Mike Ditka

GreatFaceEasyThingsWouldDid

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Diane Arbus

ConfidenceControlVictoryWinner

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

Diane Ladd

PeopleProblemsHiddenEvenSave

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Bob Beauprez

HealthResearchEnjoyWorkersLevel

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

Antonio Banderas

ThinkYouLoseMayWorkingLike

Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through that.

Ato Essandoh

MusicMeMusicallyTwoEverything

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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