James Quotes

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

I could never be James Bond.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.