C. L. R. James Quotes

Deal with him, Hemingway!

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Wipe your glosses with what you know.

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.

I don't worry about new home sales

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Ockham's disposable razors

I very little, you cheat big! – Short Round

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas

Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

I've always known... I'll die alone.

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.

We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I have a lot of nightmares.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I understand why a lot of women want to dress hipster. But I grew up sneaking my mom's Victoria's Secrets...so I could look at the hot chicks!

Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.