James Durbin Quotes

#1. I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

James Durbin

#2. It is what it is, it is what you make it.

James Durbin

#3. Lauren should not be the exception, but the norm!

Dianne Winbanks

#4. As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

James Durbin

#5. I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree
it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade.

James Lee Burke

#6. I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

James Durbin

#7. 'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

Paul Dano

#8. When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

Dan Bartlett

#9. Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

Tiger Woods

#10. In truth, if it isn't to save your life when it's in imminent danger, someone yelling at you is just plain wrong. The same is true for ranting or bitching. The same goes double for anything even close to manhandling.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#11. No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

James Durbin

#13. There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

#14. I've swallowed a pollywog. It wriggleth in my tummy. I shall die - Emerson

E. M. Forster

#15. It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chita Rivera

#16. If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

James Durbin

#17. I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

Charlie Kaufman

#18. My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

James Durbin

#19. Hagrid howled still more loudly. Harry and Hermione looked at Ron to help them.
'Er-shall I make a cup of tea?' said Ron.
Harry stared at him.
'It's what my mum does whenever someone's upset,' Ron muttered, shrugging.

J.K. Rowling

#20. The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.

James Durbin

#21. Give metal a chance!

James Durbin

#22. Different is the new normal.

James Durbin