James Goldsmith Quotes

#1. The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

James Goldsmith

#2. Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

James Goldsmith

#3. If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

James Goldsmith

#4. Beauty is a social necessity.

James Goldsmith

#5. In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.

Lewis Carroll

#6. Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.

Anthony West

#7. Man is a demon, man is a god.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

James Goldsmith

#9. Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

James Goldsmith

#10. There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasn't in a position to say, 'Go to Hell!'

James Horner

#12. When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

James Goldsmith

#13. To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

Brother Lawrence

#14. Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

James Goldsmith

#15. They'd dueled in the lamplight of her kitchen that night, savaging each other with accusations that could never be recalled. Now, he couldn't remember half of what they'd said, only the colors and lights and seething tide of fear all around them. He could still taste the acrid burn of unfairness.

Lauren Gilley

#16. We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

James Goldsmith

#17. The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.

Herbert Hoover

#18. The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

James Goldsmith

#19. Once upon a time, you were everything to me..and I was everything to you.

Marge Baylin

#20. When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

James Goldsmith

#21. If we'd done this my way,' Garrett went on, 'We'd have been here much earlier.'
'And drunk, most likely,' said Maiev.
'You say "drunk," I say "happy",' Garrett shrugged.

Grant Smuts

#22. I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

Bob Hope

#23. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

James Goldsmith