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.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
Jack Falahee -
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.
V. E. Schwab -
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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
Ida Lupino -
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.
Daniel Boulud
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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.
Damien Hirst -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
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.
Dan Carter -
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake -
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.
Utah Phillips -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson -
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso -
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Daddy Yankee -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
Malcolm McDowell
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Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.
Chris Kilham -
I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
Rachel Caine -
Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.
Ann Druyan -
There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
Sam Brownback -
People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'
Alexei Navalny -
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.