James Howard Kunstler Quotes

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.

James Howard Kunstler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1948

Topics

ThinkProcessAmericaWillHuman

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

Mercedes McCambridge

ThinkBeenMarriedShouldAnybody

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

John Vane

My OwnOwnFieldPhysiologyAmongst

God has been kind to me.

Sridevi

GodMeKindBeen

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

Tom Hodgkinson

DancePeopleTelevisionKnowActive

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.

Michael Shermer

CultureMeaningThoughtfulPureJust

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

Mitchell Zuckoff

HeartSeaPlaceSpecialClassic

We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.

Mohammad bin Salman

ReligionWorldToleranceWantBecome

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

Josie Maran

TravelEarlyLifestylePartMornings

After all these years in the business, I really feel that actors are used. People treat actors worse than they treat children. It's always, 'Do me a favor,' it's always, 'Help me out,' it's always, 'You carry the load,' and then they don't want to admit what you've done.

Diane Ladd

BusinessChildrenPeopleMeTreat

We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

Dick Durbin

GunEnoughChicagoOutGunsSell

A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

William Shawcross

GriefQueenPeopleLovedAffection

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

Sydney Pollack

StorySuspenseElementNeedsEvery

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