James Mcpherson Quotes

#1. I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

Ishmael Reed

#2. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#3. We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.

William J. Mitchell

#4. Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

Vince Gill

#5. You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Jim Sheeler

#6. The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

Malcolm Campbell

#7. I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.

James Alan McPherson

#8. Every decision to better your life has to come from within, not from anyone else.

Karina Halle

#9. That's right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don't got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

William J.H. Boetcker

#11. I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.

Ashlan Thomas

#12. People tell me they don't know whom to believe anymore; they are confused. I tell them to believe the people who preach in their mosques and say on TV that they want to kill them. They usually follow through.

Brigitte Gabriel

#13. He's such a social guy - and so popular around here - that sometimes I wonder where he got it from. In many ways he's the exact opposite of me. He likes to let a lot of people in; I like to keep most people out.

Tahereh Mafi