James Quotes · Page 9

I was in elementary school, going to school knowing Rick James, Aretha Franklin, way before my time.

— Inspectah Deck

My James Taylor albums sat quite comfortably next to my Rush and Aerosmith collections.

— Tim Miller

I've been a James Bay fan forever. When I signed to Republic, I was so excited because it was James Bay's record…

— Noah Kahan

I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.

— Charlie Fink

James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.

— James Denton

“You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

— Chris Brown

Brent Celek is a heck of a blocker, James Casey is a heck of a blocker.

— Zach Ertz

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and…

— Cynthia Ozick

After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David…

— Kaley Cuoco

James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never…

— Paul Shaffer

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to…

— Cynthia Ozick

The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul…

— Seamus Heaney

“The effect on James of being ignored by the people who stood to benefit the most from his work was to distance…

— Michael Lewis

“I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James…

— Henry James

You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a…

— Damian Marley

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

— Joel Edgerton

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

— Al Jarreau

“I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches”

— R.K. Lilley

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

— Nat Wolff

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

— Jeff Zucker

I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player.

— Ashley Bell

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

— Mark Twain

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

— Pierce Brosnan

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

“I’m his. It’s such a relief to be someone’s, to not have to be my own.”

— Kiersten White

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot…

— Sandra Bullock

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

— Frank Delaney

“and that everything at Elsworthy Electronics would carry on as before. But James knew better. If he”

— Peter Rimmer

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

— Bill Gates

I don't think I was ever as fascinated or have had so much respect for anybody like James Cagney.

— Milos Forman

I have no doubt that LeBron James would've loved to have played against Michael Jordan, but that simply is not going to…

— Shawn Michaels

“James has everything a girl could ever want, except that monogamy gene that tells him to keep his dick out of slutty…

— Anonymous

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been…

— Pierce Brosnan

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but…

— Barbara Broccoli

“It's old. Really old. Is that a technical term? Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's…

— Alex Adams

I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're…

— Emun Elliott

I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr.…

— Kenny Ortega

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit…

— Ronnie Milsap

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else…

— Tom Cullen