James Fordyce Quotes & Sayings

The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena! — Tim Cook

You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will. — Rachel E. Carter

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. — Ogden Nash

An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game. — Larry King

His face - what would it have become? While calling him back in memory I have been haunted by the idea of the unalterable features of those who have died in youth. Borne away from them by the years, we - with our time-troubled looks and diminished alertness - have submitted to many a gradual detriment of change. But the young poet of twenty-five years ago remains his world-discovering self. His futureless eyes encounter ours from the faintly smiling portrait, unconscious of the privilege and deprivation of never growing old, unconscious of the dramatic illusion of completeness that he is destined to create. — Siegfried Sassoon

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts. — Martin Amis

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. — Adriana Trigiani

It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, Yo, what the fuck? — Melissa Broder

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina. — Gina Rodriguez

Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands. — Jim Butcher

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe. — E.L. Doctorow

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me. — Danica Patrick