Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Love
  • Man
  • Stronger

• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

  

  Ian McShane
  • True
  • Man
  • Culture

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Thought
  • Better
  • Doing

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Past
  • Being
  • Falling

• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Past
  • Professional
  • Hands

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • True
  • Want
  • Man

• We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

  

  James L. Farmer, Jr.
  • Past

• Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Music
  • Man
  • End

• Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Work
  • Cry
  • Sweat

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Job

• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Past
  • Thought