C. L. R. James Quotes

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

I get totally creeped out by other people's movies.

Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

I'm really excited about my TV show. I wrote it with my best friend.

It's like a dream job to work with your friends.

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

To read is human, to review is divine.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.

I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.

Life is less than nothing without love.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

The strongest passion which I have is honor.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

As the master so the valet.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.