James Thurber
James Thurber
James Grover Thurberwas an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent, he wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal, later adapted into a film, which starred Henry Fonda and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 December 1894
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
Don't get it right, just get it written.
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
This is a very black day for the White House, and it's going to be very hard for the president to dig out of this. Bush is in trouble. He is going to have a difficult time moving any part of his domestic agenda.
It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.