Geoffrey Holder Quotes

I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

Geoffrey Holder

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• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Cancer
  • Face
  • Big

• Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Information
  • More
  • Liberals

• Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Earth
  • Building

• There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Study
  • Discipline

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Hope
  • Free

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • God
  • February

• The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Words
  • Emotional
  • Walking

• There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.

  

  Livy

• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

  

  Edward Albee

• He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Work
  • Together
  • Knowledge

• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Business

• I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • Literature

• I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Soul
  • House
  • Reflects

• Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Up
  • Political
  • Funny

• In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Criticism

• 'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

  

  Drake
  • Done

• I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

  

  Geoffrey Holder