James Webb Quotes

#1. We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

George Whitefield

#2. And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

James Webb Young

#3. Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk to be true to ourselves.

James Webb

#4. He's wearing a dog tag. His name is Henry Webb. His unit is called BLM." "What does it mean?" "Black Like Me. A solidarity movement, I suppose.

James Patterson

#5. You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

John Berger

#6. If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

James Webb

#7. The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

Serge Schmemann

#8. Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

James Webb Young

#9. An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

James Webb Young

#10. Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

James Webb Young

#11. This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

James Webb Young

#12. When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.

James T. Webb

#13. Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest ... Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

James Webb Young

#14. A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

James Webb Young

#15. Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

James Webb Young

#16. The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

James Webb Young

#17. We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

James Webb Young

#18. Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own ... in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

James E. Webb

#19. Look here,' she began, 'you can't go on like that, you know. If you are really keen on a thing, and it's a good thing, you ought to go and do it. It is no use waiting till people tell you that you may go. Asking permission is a coward's way of shifting responsibility on to some one else.

Winifred Holtby

#20. And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

Manu Joseph

#21. I don't actually breakdance.

James Webb

#22. I settled in to watch a Dragnet rerun. I bought the judge in four of Jack Webb's drunk-driving beefs. I shtupped Jack's ex-wife, soaring songstress Julie London.

James Ellroy

#23. Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells ... any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.

James E. Webb