C. L. R. James Quotes

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

Have you ever been to Colorado?" I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?

Time to die. -Evil Angel

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

Listen up,” I said urgently. “It’s time to round up your gear. I’m gonna check in with Patrick, and then we’re getting the flock out of here.” Ha-ha.

Fear is not the answer, not ever.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

I vill destroy de snickers bar!" Gazzy(The Gas Man)

Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now, and they're not giving the summer to cable anymore.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.

I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing.

I can rap; that's what I was originally really good at.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Budget affects everything.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea.

My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.

Any work of art dignifies life.

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it.

Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible.

I love being a human being, my time and experience here has become even more treasured since I turned to acting.