Ernest Holmes Quotes

I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.

Ernest Holmes

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• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Something
  • Movement

• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Pink
  • Lips
  • Colour

• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Mind

• The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Long
  • American
  • Help

• You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.

  

  Pauline Marois
  • Respect

• I've always done what I wanted to do.

  

  Phyllis A. Whitney
  • Done

• There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

  

  Anita Borg
  • Women
  • Perception

• I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

  

  Paz Vega
  • Women
  • English
  • Latin

• The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

  

  John Philpot Curran
  • God

• I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.

  

  James McBride
  • People
  • World
  • Funny

• Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • Pretty

• Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Career

• If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Means
  • Ultimately

• I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Person
  • Sex
  • Books

• As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Comedy
  • Moving
  • Successful

• I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • God
  • Joy
  • Gift