Famous quotes containing the words james, cagney, return and/or warner:
“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“You dirty, double-crossing rat.”
—James Cagney (1899–1986)
“Yet I shall never return to the past, that attic.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”
—Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1901)