Ernest Holmes Quotes

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

Ernest Holmes

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Think
  • Look

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Works

• You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Soul
  • Poor
  • Solo

• I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Life
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Character
  • Special
  • Played

• I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Best
  • Page

• I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

  

  Gallant
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Feelings

• I'm not saying I came up with anything laughs. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, 'Look at all these gimmicks.' Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Waiting

• Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Calm
  • Frozen

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Kind

• Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Duty

• No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Freedom
  • Limitation
  • Contemplation