James Bowen Quotes

#1. My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

Busta Rhymes

#2. I tried to sneak in without him seeing me. It was a stupid move. He was a cat, he had more senses in one of his whiskers than I had in my entire body. No sooner had I opened the door to the building than he was there squeezing his way in.

James Bowen

#3. Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

Cynthia Kenyon

#4. Old habits die hard,

James Bowen

#5. Beggars can't be choosers

James Bowen

#6. Dreamers are full of inventive minds, willing to find new possibilities and new ways to grow in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#7. There's an old saying that a wise man is someone who doesn't grieve for the things which he doesn't have but is grateful for the good things that he does have.

James Bowen

#8. Everybody needs a break, everybody deserves that second chance. Bob and I had taken ours...

James Bowen

#9. Cats are notoriously picky about who they like. And if a cat doesn't like its owner it will go and find another one. Cats do that all the time.

James Bowen

#10. An empowered person will recognize that they have agreed to the reality presented.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#11. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain

James Bowen

#12. Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Nora Roberts

#13. Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

Gerald Chertavian

#14. It's not like I planned to have a heart attack, you know? I wasn't thinking to myself, 'Hmm, you know what James? Today seems like the perfect afternoon for a myocardial infarction.

John Bowen

#15. You can begin right now to feel healthy You can begin to feel prosperous. You can begin to feel the love that's surrounding you, even if it's not there. And what will happen is the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.

Michael Beckwith

#16. What do you think? The last party she threw for you, you
came home with an inflatable cock on your head as a tiara, totally drunk,
singing 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' and carrying a huge basket full of sex toys.

Elle Aycart

#17. I am waiting to write the poem that is something like a dance movie, the ones populated by fair haired ballerinas with just a little bit of singe to their tulle, not quite as dark as the Natalie Portman one, but girls woefully misunderstood by their parents or harboring dead mothers and sad pasts.

Kristy Bowen

#18. Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

Billy Corgan

#19. Give away a smile today. You never know who needs one.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#20. Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Marian Wright Edelman