James Quotes

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 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.

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.

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

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.