James Agee Quotes

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

I just want pieces of the world.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

I'm not limited.

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

What I like about America is that anything is possible.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

Every wall is a door.

When you have variety, you have freedom.

In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.

I want to do a lot of different characters - definitely not always the same kind of character. I love that life provides so many choices, and I want to be able to experience that.

It's never bad to have options.