"When he ran from a cop, his transitions……" — James Agee
"When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift."
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40 Quotes by James Agee
James Agee has 40 quotes on this site.
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the…
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in…
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The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine,…
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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good…
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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at…
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
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I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the…
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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
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...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable…
— Angela Merkel
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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies…
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For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as…
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What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.'…
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One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social,…
— Ralph Linton
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The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and…
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