James Fadiman Quotes

#1. There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

Roberto Bolano

#2. Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

Guy Cook

#3. I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

Alanis Morissette

#4. Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you.

Katarina Bivald

#5. I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.

Mabel Cheung

#7. Man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known

Jane Austen

#8. Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

Naftali Bennett

#9. As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her,

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. I don't need to speak ... I play the guitar!

Joe Perry

#11. It is not the man of great native talent who wins, but he who pushes his talent however small to its utmost capacity.

Carolyn Coats

#12. I was unable to throw myself in the ocean, she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers seep into every cell, shutting out lights in empty rooms.

Nick Flynn

#13. If you can't see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else's culture?

Anne Fadiman

#14. Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

James Fadiman

#15. I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

Lupita Nyong'o

#16. I'm not in politics.

David Attenborough

#17. Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

James Fadiman