James Wright

James Wright or Jim Wright may refer to:

  • James Homer Wright (1869–1928), American pathologist
  • James Wright (historian) (born 1939), President of Dartmouth College, historian
  • James Wright (inventor), American creator of Silly Putty
  • James Wright (poet) (1927–1980), American poet
  • James Dillon Wright (born 1979), artist, graphic designer, toy designer and illustrator
  • James W. Wright, executive director of the Development Authority of the North Country
  • James Wright (potter) (1819–1887), New Zealand potter
  • James Whitaker Wright (1846–1904), English mining company owner

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Famous quotes containing the words james wright, james and/or wright:

    “Come down. Come down. Why dost
    Thou hide thy face?”
    —James Wright (1927–1980)

    “Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist I have so carefully posited ‘reality’ ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)