James Adomian quote: "Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy came up to me and said, 'Your shows was a lot funnier before you started in on your agenda.' I told him, 'Please, please keep people like you from coming to my show. I'm glad you had a bad time.'"

I think we're realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed w...
JAMES ADOMIAN

Eventually, all of our impressions will be dead. That's one of my favorite things about Paul F. ...
JAMES ADOMIAN

I'm not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror...
JAMES ADOMIAN

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
JAMES MONTGOMERY

Q: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. T...
JAMES PATTERSON

Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended...
JAMES SALTER

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have ...
JAMES PATTERSON

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are descr...
JAMES BALDWIN

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
JAMES MERRICK

In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain ...
JAMES BALLANTINE

The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of dea...
JAMES MONTGOMERY

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we...
JAMES TURRELL

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON

I love Carpenter, I love Craven - these are all the classics - the Romeros of the world, but I think...
JAMES WAN

I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman. Those are obviously the key big ones, but there's...
JAMES WAN

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by...
JAMES COMEY

There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have s...
PETER JAMES

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ...
JAMES WAN

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made...
JAMES GRAY

I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter...
JAMES BLUNT

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his tradema...
JAMES WOLCOTT

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your bloo...
JAMES STOCKDALE

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York...
JAMES CAGNEY

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the...
HENRY JAMES

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop pe...
RENEE JAMES

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care litt...
JAMES OTIS

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't...
KEVIN JAMES

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then t...
JAMES WAN

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government t...
JAMES LANKFORD

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
JAMES TAYLOR

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or ...
JAMES ALTUCHER

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contor...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use ...
JAMES MATTIS

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safet...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
BILL JAMES

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just vi...
JAMES WAN

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and t...
LEBRON JAMES

My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.
JAMES TURRELL

Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you...
JAMES MARSDEN

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
BILL JAMES

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing princ...
JAMES DYSON

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-bus...
JAMES FRANCO

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it p...
JAMES COOK

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
JAMES SALTER

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
JAMES DYSON

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can...
JAMES THURBER

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption...
JAMES COMEY

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology,...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is a...
JAMES THURBER

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th...
JAMES BUCHAN

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consid...
JAMES MATTIS

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtu...
JAMES JONES

None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the...
BILL JAMES

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere ar...
JAMES GRAY

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absen...
HENRY JAMES

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of f...
JAMES DICKEY

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you&#...
LEBRON JAMES

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.
JAMES CRONIN

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficient...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the boo...
JAMES STOCKDALE

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; ...
JAMES MATTIS

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
JAMES DYSON

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of ...
JAMES FENTON

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
JAMES BROUGHTON

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISON

I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striki...
MARLON JAMES

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's as...
JAMES HILLMAN

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic ac...
JAMES FORRESTAL

I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked o...
JAMES COSMO

My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's...
JAMES GUNN

Acclaim is a distraction.
JAMES BROUGHTON

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBER

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
JAMES DYSON

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
CLIVE JAMES

The one thing you've gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what ...
JAMES CORDEN

I will write another book if I feel like it.
JAMES HERRIOT

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was...
JAMES HERRIOT

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Jud...
JAMES DOBSON

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exis...
JAMES DOBSON

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay...
JAMES DOBSON

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act...
JAMES AGATE

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
JAMES BRYCE

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the...
HENRY JAMES

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
WILLIAM JAMES

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more...
JAMES BALDWIN

Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie T...
JAMES HOWE

Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie, ...
JAMES HOWE

Are you still mad at me?"
"Yes."
"I'll go back to sleep, then."
"Good.
E.L. JAMES

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered ...
JAMES BALDWIN

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ...
WILLIAM JAMES

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
WILLIAM JAMES

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
JAMES RESTON

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
HENRY JAMES

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.
JAMES PHILLIPS

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be...
JAMES RESTON

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
JAMES CARSWELL

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 ...
JAMES BROWN

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
JAMES DUFFECY

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES BARRIE

I learned from Bruce Lee, Be like water and Gil Grissom from CSI, Be like sponge.
JAMES DYE

The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
HENRY JAMES

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE

It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
JAMES WATSON

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES

Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMES

The fatal futility of Fact.
HENRY JAMES

I can't say I haven't lied but I can say that I lied to tell the truth.
JAMES DYE

The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is ...
JAMES PHILLIPS

It is not something I must do but something I want to do
JAMES FIXX

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be con...
WILLIAM JAMES

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaste...
WILLIAM JAMES

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
WILLIAM JAMES

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
JAMES BRYCE

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then co...
JAMES NEWMAN

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMES

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them ...
JAMES BUCKHAM

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.
WILLIAM JAMES

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a sai...
JAMES FENTON

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
JAMES BARRIE

If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matt...
JAMES BARRIE

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
JAMES BARRIE

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The ...
JAMES ELLROY

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an...
WILLIAM JAMES

Better luck next time they say, or you win some you lose some, I guess it's something like that.
JAMES DYE

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
JAMES BARRIE

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will f...
JAMES ALLEN

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ...
JAMES ALLEN

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
JAMES AGEE

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It i...
JAMES BRYCE

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex bu...
JAMES AGATE

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
JAMES BARRIE

One does not become a guru by accident.
JAMES FENTON

They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
CAPTAIN JAMES

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moment...
ALICE JAMES

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JAMES FEIBLEMAN

You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can ratt...
JAMES HETFIELD

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER

Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours...
JAMES AGATE

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN

The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality
JAMES DYE

Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This...
JAMES DYE

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrific...
JAMES BARRIE

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convict...
JAMES GARFIELD

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence,...
JAMES ALLEN

The gallows were used to punish criminals, for instance the pharoahs would chop off people's heads a...
JAMES DYE

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our c...
WILLIAM JAMES

The most useless are those who never change through the years.
JAMES BARRIE

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
JAMES ALLEN

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES AUGUSTINE

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead...
JAMES BARRIE

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the mea...
JAMES ALLEN

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
JAMES ALLEN

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JAMES ATLAS

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will ...
JAMES ALLEN

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you sh...
JAMES ALLEN

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER

Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it ...
JAMES BAMFORD

Sad people have more sober reflections.
JAMES DYE

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unwo...
WILLIAM JAMES

You're required to fight the government since they are not obeying the laws of the constitution and ...
JAMES DYE

The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.
JAMES MONTGOMERY

Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery rampart...
JAMES BEATTIE

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that ...
JAMES MADISON

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon a...
JAMES BEARD

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so suc...
JAMES AGEE

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut...
JAMES BALDWIN

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .
JAMES ALLEN

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot co...
JAMES ALLEN

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magni...
JAMES ALLEN

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. (on focus).
JAMES ALLEN

Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the Tool of Th...
JAMES ALLEN

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
JAMES ALLEN

Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy came up to me and said, 'Your shows was a lot funnier before you started in on your agenda.' I told him, 'Please, please keep people like you from coming to my show. I'm glad you had a bad time.'

James Adomian

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