The best Quotes by James Stephens

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

The curious fish gets caught!

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

You're never too old to be young.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

There's nothing that stupid men fear more than intelligent women.

Of course it's hard to understand women...
if you think with your dick instead of your heart.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

You ever heard of opera? It's what those rich guys listen to at their banquets. It's all tenor this and falsetto that.

The opera isn't over until the last heterosexual falls asleep.

Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?

Ooh, the Patriot Act is so terrible! The government might find out what library books I take out! What's next, finding out what operas I go to?

"The Phantom of the Opera" is about love. It's as simple as that.

People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.

We're trying to keep a low profile. You want drama, go to the opera!

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.