James Quotes

806 James quotes by 590 unique authors

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. — Wanda Sykes
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth… — Robert Adams
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me… — Ray Bradbury
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptreeâ€™s writing.… — Robert Silverberg
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. — Marilyn Manson
My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry. — Ken Adam
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. — Bill Nighy
Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?'… — James Whistler
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when… — James Whistler
I really didn`t have to work, shall we say, with "Star Trek." It was a natural. When I opened my mouth, there was Scotty. It`s… — James Doohan
Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up… — Duncan Fletcher
Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls… — Leigh Hunt
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James… — Dallin H. Oaks
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie… — Ricky Gervais
Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've got… — Ricky Gervais
Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences… — Adam Rayner
I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that… — Sebastian Stan
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc. — Tommy Wiseau

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