C. L. R. James Quotes

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a 4.5 percent increase in tuition that's above inflation.

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Idleness induces caprice.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Many make the household but only one the home.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.