Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
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  • Cooking

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Different
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• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
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• This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Money
  • Priority

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Wonder
  • Years
  • Movies

• Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Medical

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Influence

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Happy
  • Song
  • College

• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Professional

• Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Find
  • Fault
  • Others

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - and we need to listen to the messages being sent. They are real messages - just as real as a human saying something to you.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Saying

• The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.

  

  Jerry A. Webman
  • Growth

• I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Age
  • Today
  • Wish

• A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Long
  • Why

• What would God have me do with my life?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • My Life

• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody