Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Quotes to Explore
-
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
-
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
-
When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
-
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
-
When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
-
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
-
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
-
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
-
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
-
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
-
I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
-
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
-
Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
-
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
-
There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
-
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
-
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.
-
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
-
You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
-
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
-
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
-
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
