"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect." ― Henry James Topic(s): Respect More From Henry James "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." "The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master." "The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?" More In Respect "If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."― Peter Benchley "But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that’s not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."― Norman Lear "I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don’t respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all."― Alexander Graham Bell