James Huneker Quotes

#1. You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Francine Rivers

#2. I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.

Manolo Blahnik

#3. I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

James Huneker

#5. There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

James Huneker

#6. Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

James Huneker

#7. I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

Douglas Brinkley

#8. We were the first generation without a draft," he says matter-of-factly. "We didn't need to worry about life and death, so we channeled all that time and energy into obsessing over this TV show or that comic book." This

Glen Weldon

#9. Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Dwight L. Moody

#10. Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

James Huneker

#11. Going too fast for myself I missed
more than I think I can remember
almost everything it seems sometimes
and yet there are chances that come back
that I did not notice when they stood
where I could have reached out and touched them

W.S. Merwin

#12. Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

John Waters

#13. Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

James Huneker

#14. Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Huneker

#15. I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.

Evan Spiegel

#16. Married men make the best husbands.

James Huneker

#17. No matter what's going on in your life, remember that salvation isn't only something Jesus did for you; it's Jesus living in you.

Stormie O'martian

#18. The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

James Huneker

#19. Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

James Huneker

#20. All men of action are dreamers.

James Huneker

#21. A critic is a man who expects miracles.

James Gibbons Huneker

#22. We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

James Huneker

#23. I'm not where I'm supposed to be,
I'm not what I want to be,
But I'm not what I used to be.
I haven't learned how to arrive;
I've just learned how to keep going

John C. Maxwell

#24. Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

James Huneker

#25. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Gibbons Huneker