James Emery White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  • Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

  • After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

  • If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

  • When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

  • To add to truth distracts from it,

  • Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

  • Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

  • What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?