James Field > James's Quotes

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often lost with childhood. By adulthood humans had trained themselves to be coy and manipulative in response to the coy and manipulative society in which they lived, which led them to believe that everyone was trying to be as coy and manipulative as themselves and were uncertain about what was true and what was not. Beyond their few flashes of clarity, everything became a muddle of colliding doubts.”
― Sean DeLauder, The Speaker for the Trees

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Traumatic events can be compared to facing a demon pitcher on the baseball diamond. Life tells us we have to take a swing at the ball, but engaging this demon comes with consequences. If you make first base, you’ll feel the need to sleep. Not so bad. Second, you’ll want to forget it all happened. Don’t we all? But third base brings the onset of madness and if you step off the plate there’s only death. In the great game of life, sometimes it’s better to strike out than hit a home run. After all, you can relax in the Dugout with friends until you’re ready to knock the demon out of the park.”

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― Michael Gardner

“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”
― Tony Rohn, Life Mastery: 300 Success Lessons from Jim Rohn, Anthony Robbins And Les Brown

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the season or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.       You”
― Tony Rohn, Jim Rohn: How To Be Successful In Life? 100 Success Lessons from Jim Rohn on Life, Leadership, Self Development, Investing In Yourself, Goals & Dreams

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Speaking with her eyes on the ceiling, she”
― Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie

“She returned her eyes to me.”
― Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie