Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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• 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Like
  • Saying

• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • High
  • Fire

• The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

  

  Ari Fleischer

• Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Father
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

  

  Michelle Paver
  • Sometimes
  • Warning

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Language
  • Thoughts