James C Humes Quotes

#1. Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

Ben Shahn

#2. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

James Humes

#3. Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances ... If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

James C. Humes

#4. Why write wrong if the writing won't right the wrong? (90)

Sandra M. Gilbert

#5. I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Roger Bannister

#6. Max, the trouble with you is for the last nine years - well, most of your life, come to think of it - you've lived in a masculine world; you're used to logic, reason, sense. Females don't think like we do; they're emotional.

Anne Gracie

#7. I wrote the worst novel ever.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#8. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

James Humes

#9. To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The fiending for a state of stasis, for the safety of childhood and the nostalgia of the madeleine in the tea or an eternal library is not too far removed from the desire for death. The idealizing of the past is a kind of death.

John Thomas Allen

#11. Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus - and at the very same time - that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

Rebecca Skloot

#12. In order to be able to accomplish anything new, the first thing we need to do is to teach ourselves... not to be so afraid.

Jose N. Harris

#13. People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Andy Goldsworthy

#14. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

#15. Shelby's laugh is like water. Sometimes it's good, cleansing, even refreshing. Other times, I feel it might drown me.

Jillian Cantor

#16. I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

James C. Humes

#17. You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.

Robert Ingpen

#18. And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Julia Glass

#19. America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

John Updike

#20. that meant he was spectacularly horny. This

J.R. Ward

#21. Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James Humes