Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
Patricia Richardson -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
T. J. Miller -
I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
Hannibal Buress -
Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes -
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
Tariq Ali -
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth -
My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
Cara Delevingne -
I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
Rachel Kushner
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans -
The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
Florentijn Hofman -
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
Edmund Phelps -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.
Eve Ensler -
Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
Tahl Raz -
I know all the books of the Bible.
Hailey Bieber -
I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.
Adele -
Anything on paper is obsolete!
Craig Bruce -
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.