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James Branch Cabell Quotes

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

James Branch Cabell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Direction Enough Important More

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Book You Meal Miss

I'm a magazine junkie. I have 30 different subscriptions to various magazines, and I like old-school, real magazines.

Real Magazine Different Like Various

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Art Intelligence Think Human Center

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

God Children Others Call Ourselves

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Think Enough Fan Officers He His

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

Family Me Career Important Hard

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

Words Looking Reading Cheating Now

I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing 'The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead', and I find I can't.

Life Day Writing Trying You Find

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

Christopher Nolan

You Lose Television Phone Place Go

Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.

Faith Beautiful Game Judge You

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.

Positive Person Coming Pretty Get

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

Failure Sad Time Me Career Holiday

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