C. L. R. James Quotes

No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

We do not attract what we want, But what we are.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.