Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
Caitlin Stasey -
I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
Sam Smith -
I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
Sam Hunt -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph -
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
Kate Smith -
My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
Natalia Kills -
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau -
Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
Adam Lambert -
It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
Jack Lynch -
There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
Rahul Dravid
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
Edie Sedgwick -
I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
Vince Vaughn -
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
Laura Dern -
I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
Jack Kevorkian -
Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
Vic Tayback
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
Albert Einstein -
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
Will Shetterly -
You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.
Denison Witmer -
We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
Tom Shadyac -
I just really like being with my sister.
Milly Shapiro -
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.