James Autry Quotes

#1. Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea ...

Anne Sexton

#2. Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Dominic Cooper

#3. You all right, man?'
This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man.
Ah ... ' I stumble.
Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.

Ned Vizzini

#4. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Jodi Picoult

#5. Poetry gives you permission to feel.

James Autry

#6. I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.

Philip K. Dick

#7. In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

#8. The power of love and caring can change the world.

James Autry

#9. Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial, growth. If it doesn't, we're wasting far too much of our lives on it.

James Autry

#10. There is no business, there are only people. Business exists only among people and for people.

James Autry

#11. In every situation, you must lead with your real self, because if you're going to be on the leading edge of management, you sometimes must be on the emotional edge as well.

James Autry

#12. It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Tom Lehrer

#13. Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

James A. Autry

#14. It is like a voice heard from another room, singing for the pleasure of the song, and then you know it, too, and through you it moves by accident and necessity down generations. Then, why singing? Why pleasure in it? And why the blessing of the moment when another voice is heard, dreaming to itself?

Marilynne Robinson

#15. Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Giacomo Leopardi

#16. America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Mark Twain

#17. I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

Cynthia Nixon