Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Life for me is about movement.
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The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
