James Herbert Quotes

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me. ~ James Herbert

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M. ~ James Herbert

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around. ~ James Herbert

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. ~ James Herbert

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. ~ James Herbert

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me. ~ James Herbert

I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination. ~ James Herbert

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. ~ James Herbert

The photographer was lost for riposte, obvious though it should have been; instead he turned to run. At least his mind did. In fact, his mind had already scooted down the Broad Walk and was clambering over the railings at the end, whereas his body had remained rooted to the spot. With some effort he looked down at his feet as if to reprimand them. They refused to take notice. ~ James Herbert

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~ James Herbert

He died. And waited. ~ James Herbert

Still, that was the city, a great big filthy breeding-place for vermin – animal and human. ~ James Herbert

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week. ~ James Herbert

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis. ~ James Herbert

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love. ~ James Herbert

Life is full of crises, we all know that. It's how we learn, how we grow. They help form character, mould the man (or woman), as it were. As an opposite to good times, they even help us appreciate life a little more; and a person without strife is a person without passion, for trauma both tests and strengthens moral fibre, becomes a measure of human depth. There is no adversity on this earth that cannot be overcome with fortitude and positive will. ~ James Herbert

Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright. ~ James Herbert

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week. ~ James Herbert

Now get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans ~ James Herbert

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again. ~ James Douglas

You want to hear vocals? Go sing it. ~ James Hetfield

One finds limits by pushing them. ~ Herbert Simon

The thing about computers - it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention. ~ Frank Herbert

One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence. Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge [ ... ]. Care for human existence and its truth makes philosophy a 'practical science' in the deepest sense, and it also leads philosophy - and this is the crucial point - into the concrete distress of human existence. ~ Herbert Marcuse

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music. ~ James Joyce

When things go awry, if they are mostly an inconvenience to you or a threat to your ego, instead of getting furious, can you laugh?
Sometimes the even the best-laid plans, the most carefully planned events can turn out quite differently than planned. ~ James Martin

This solid permanence in Foreign Office affairs had always antagonized MacGregor: there was something threatening and deadly and over-sure in it. The building itself was far more flexible and animate than its regular and eternal inhabitants who demanded such rigid conformity of anyone entering the kingdom. No one could enter the Foreign Office with a contradiction to it and have his conviction untouched and unshaken. This was a n atmosphere of such self-conviction and God-like authority that any rival opinion was shattered in the contact. ~ James Aldridge

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time. ~ James N. Frey

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise. ~ James Blunt

Have you ever told him how you feel? What he meant to you, what he probably still means to you? ~ James L. Rubart

Why, Daddy?" she asked. She still had that strange look on her face. "Why do dogs die so young? Shadow was only seventeen. He was not even as old as my babysitter."
"To teach us," he said.
"Teach us what, Daddy?"
"Compassion," he replied.
"But why, Daddy?" she asked.
"So that we might be kinder. So we might make the world kinder. They leave, but they leave us with their lesson. All great teachers do that."
"Yes," said Emma. "He was a good teacher to me too. He was also a wonderful runway model."
He handed her the polaroid. She examined its rivulets and splotches. She put her thumb on the smudges, rubbing them. To Theo, it seemed she knew of the eyes and mouth that once had been. Then the full gravity of the circumstance fell upon her. Emma wept. She was now a girl with a crack in her heart. The sorrows of the world were now available to her. Soon, she would know their beauty. ~ Steven James Taylor

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience. ~ James Cameron

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough. ~ William James

You are mine," I whisper. "Only mine. Don't forget it. ~ E.L. James

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251 ~ Frank Herbert

They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation. ~ Frank Herbert

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie. ~ George Herbert

Few people know that, by canon law, each and every Catholic altar must contain a holy relic. ~ James Rollins

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. ~ James Agee

Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book. ~ Henry James

Minho had taught Thomas that speaking only wasted energy, so he concentrated on his pace and his breaths. ~ James Dashner

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ~ Frank Herbert

Number, place, and combination ... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. ~ James Joseph Sylvester

A meaningful future in America. This was something that James apparently had a hard time imagining. ~ Beverly Haviland

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis. ~ James Burrows

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. ~ Frank Herbert

Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. ~ James Lee Burke

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth? ~ James Lee Burke

His prayer, addressed neither to God nor saint, began with a shiver, as the chilly morning breeze crept through the chink of the carriage door to his feet, and ended in a trail of foolish words which he made to fit the insistent rhythm of the train; and silently, at intervals of four seconds, the telegraph-poles held the galloping notes of the music between punctual bars. ~ James Joyce

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work. ~ James Fenton

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience. ~ James Comey

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball. ~ LeBron James

People who say they don't have a choice just too coward to choose. ~ Marlon James

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free. ~ James Patterson

If you smile and laugh, people think you're happy. If you act calm and collected, people think you have it together. ~ Brooklyn James

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. ~ James A. Garfield