James Baldwin Quotes

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

Topics

LifeRespectEffortThinkPresent

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

Jo Cox

RainDownDefenseRushCivilSyrian

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

John Eccles

MyselfMedicalBrainStudentStudy

My goal in life was to serve my people, and the most important service for the Jewish people is building the land, and the basics of building the people and the country is working the land.

Shimon Peres

LifeServicePeopleBuildingGoal

True strength is delicate.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

StrengthTrueDelicateTrue Strength

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Lois Capps

WorldEnergySecurityCountryWay

I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'

Lisa Jewell

LoveMarriagePartyPersonalFirst

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Joseph Roux

PoetryExpressionExquisite

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

Demetri Martin

I AmMeSorryThoughtWalkingYou

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Brian Lamb

BirdRecordFetish

The successful artists are completely narcissistic and self-referential. Every song is about them. They talk about themselves. They talk about what they have. They talk about what they're going to do to somebody else. They talk about what they're going to get.

Bob Casale

SongTalkSuccessfulGoingArtists

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

QualitySmallDirectionPressureNow

Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.

Alison Sweeney

FitnessJobPartOption

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