C. L. R. James Quotes

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

Do unto others what has been done to you.

It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

I hate that word blog It sounds like a large accumulation of snot

Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.