Jamesian Quotes

#1. may tranquillity walk by his elbow When wandering in the forest, if he love No

W.B.Yeats

#2. The Board would like to come back and see you tomorrow, Ariana,' she mimicked. 'Any more questions?'
'Yes,' she answered in the Warden's Irish accent, 'I'd just like to know why I'm such an arsehole.

Claire Merle

#3. There is no difference between our methods and those of anybody bu else-the only difference is that our motivation and dedication he is much greater.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#4. You've so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don't ask how. Then you come near. "Do not ... " I say, and "Do not ... ," you answer. Don't ask why this delights me.

Rumi

#5. I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

Edmund White

#6. Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?

Buddy Holly

#7. We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.

Michael Ondaatje

#9. There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.

Stephen King

#10. If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Mark Twain

#12. A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick").

Tali Sharot

#13. Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Jean M. Auel

#14. We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.

Bryant McGill

#15. I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.

John Lydon

#16. Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.

Agatha Christie

#17. I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.

Kim Alexis

#18. I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Rand Paul