James MacArthur Quotes

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

My dad was an electrical engineer.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

I fell in love with electricity.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I've been climbing my whole life, so I know a lot of the feelings, the smells; these memories are pretty distinct in my mind still.

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.

I can't change a light bulb.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.