Quotes About James J Braddock

#1. In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

Damon Runyon

#2. Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Jason Reitman

#3. Em. Are you the Loch Ness Monster?" Archie stuttered shuffling back a step.
"Aghhh! M, M, Monster. Monster." Gordon shrieked, he turned his huge body and run further down the cavern to a boulder no more than six feet tall in the center, Gordon hid behind it.

Mark A. Cooper

#4. I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

Wes Anderson

#5. The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

Alex Shoumatoff

#6. I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

Louis Sachar

#7. Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Bruce Springsteen

#8. Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.

Pope Francis

#9. I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

James J. Braddock

#10. Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia

#11. It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off ... When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

James J. Braddock

#12. On every door the management had placed a photograph of the person so they could find their room. As he went by he saw face after face of someone who used to be young.

Fannie Flagg

#13. Way is not a talk. It is a walk. You can

Matthew Martin

#14. Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. I want to go out like a Champion, I want to be carried out

James J. Braddock

#16. Every opportunity with another was an opportunity to serve my fellow man. Every moment alone was a chance to grow and become more of who I already was. I instantly felt how great a life could be, and that was only made possible by service toward others.

Chris Matakas