James T Farrell Quotes

#1. What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

Colin Farrell

#2. He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.

James T. Farrell

#3. Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

James T. Farrell

#4. Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

James T. Farrell

#5. America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell

#6. It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.

James T. Farrell

#8. The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

James T. Farrell

#9. I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Katy Perry

#10. There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

James T. Farrell

#11. The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Dean Koontz

#13. His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.

James T. Farrell

#14. He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.

James T. Farrell

#15. The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

George H. W. Bush

#16. Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

James T. Farrell

#17. The boy scout struggled after her with the bundle that was too heavy for him. Studs watched them, and thought unprintable things about old lady Gorman.

James Farrell

#18. Employment deprives you of innovations

Sunday Adelaja

#19. One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

Nancy Kerrigan

#20. You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

Daniel Craig

#21. Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

James T. Farrell

#22. I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#23. He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop.

James T. Farrell

#24. They served the rich, and tried to think that they were rich.

James T. Farrell

#25. He was still where he had always been. Just hoping.

James T. Farrell

#26. Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.

George Polya

#27. I know I probably should be sad about my mother's cancer ... but she still hasn't seen The Last Kiss, you know?

Zach Braff

#28. If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

James T. Farrell

#29. What a child digs for becomes his own possession,

Charlotte Mason

#30. So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

James T. Farrell

#31. What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Paulo Coelho

#32. Oh, I was so not a wilting flower. I'd let a man pick me up and carry me because I couldn't handle the price of using magic when I was dead. Again.

Devon Monk

#33. Loneliness is an empty space, a hole that cannot be filled. Loneliness is the weather side of the quarterdeck and a vacant captain's cabin. It's the sea when I can't look at it through your eyes. It's the wind when I can't hear it with your ears. It's salt when I can't taste it on your lips.

Ellen Argo

#34. Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

James T. Farrell