James Baldwin Quotes

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

Jimmy Page

YouKnowSalesAnythingHonest

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

Jerry Saltz

GoodBadGood And BadMoreFour

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

Johannes Stark

PositiveNegativeDirectionMeeting

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Anna Neagle

AloneLearnNecessaryShould

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Michael Caine

KnowledgeForwardEnoughYouLook

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.

Michael Dirda

LifeGoodWorldBookHandsYou

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

Steve Blank

SuccessFailureConfidentHelpWill

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

Mary E. Pearson

TodayResearchThinkThoughtFeel

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.

Masaharu Morimoto

ArtSushiMaking

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Marty Robbins

FunStagePayGetSo Much FunMuch

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

Jayne Mansfield

PerseveranceCoffeeYouWillMore

I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

Jonathan Levine

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