James Branch Cabell Quotes

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

James Branch Cabell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958

Topics

KingWhyHeartsOnlyMoustache

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Jocko Willink

LeadershipFreedomDisciplineFinding

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

Jenny Lawson

WorkBestBookHurtEndBetter

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

John Caudwell

FamilyChildrenPrideWantWayOwn

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

John Corey Whaley

FamilyFriendsWellBeenSupportive

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

Amanda Donohoe

WonderfulJustStoriesCharacters

I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.

Roger Rees

PeopleWonderfulThingsGreatestGot

I've just finished a book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife', which I really enjoyed, but that's quite old, but I have read it. I've read it, and I enjoyed that.

Rupert Evans

TimeWifeBookOldJustFinished

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

GodTruthMirrorThoughtHandsSaid

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

Joshua Henry

LifeRelationshipChildhoodPastYou

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

Jose Antonio Vargas

ChangePeopleWhiteCountryYoung

U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.

Dolores O'Riordan

NothingWhyIrishBeingUsCommon

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

Dominick Cruz

LifeGrowLossYouPart

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