James Cagney/early Career 1919-1930

Famous quotes containing the words james, cagney, early and/or career:

    We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    You dirty, double-crossing rat.
    —James Cagney (1899–1986)

    In an early spring
    We see th’appearing buds, which to prove fruit
    Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair
    That frosts will bite them.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
    Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)