James Mason Quotes

#1. Because of this.
Because your funny.
Because you know Lolita.
And Nabukov and James Mason too.
Because you're cute and funny and i'm kind of sad and you haven't tried hitting on me once.
Because you weren't even trying ...

Matt Fraction

#2. I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

Ken Livingstone

#3. Love need trust. If you don't have trust on your partner, i am sure you can't enjoy the feelings of true love.

Raj Kumar

#4. If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.

James Parton

#5. We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word - war.

P.J. Whittlesea

#6. Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser - never forgetting how one link dropped undone and indefinite number. - William James

Mason Currey

#7. I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

Helen Mirren

#8. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

James Murray Mason

#10. Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell

Mason Currey

#11. Well, I don't know what to do first. I mean, should I take the piss out of you" - he points at me - "for the TV interview? Or you" - he points at James - "for the fan mail?

Sarah Mason

#12. I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

James Joyce

#13. Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

Sam Ewing

#14. I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

Roz Savage

#15. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Marilyn Manson

#16. I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

James Thayer

#17. There remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Robin McKinley

#18. There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

Cassandra Clare

#19. It was harder to ignore the smell, meat just starting to turn. And gas. The dead were quiet, very quiet in a bad way, but the sounds of escaping gas were all over. [He] was surrounded by belching and farting corpses who wanted to eat him. It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking horrible.

Mason James Cole

#20. To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Bobby Bowden

#21. There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

Roger Ailes

#22. Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz

#23. How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.

James Mason

#24. Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

James Wood-Mason