Isabelle Holland Quotes

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

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• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Beginning

• All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Want

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Event
  • Foreign Policy

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Matter
  • Follow

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Design
  • Follow
  • Relevant

• They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Beginning
  • Hair

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • American
  • Question

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Beginning

• All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • Art
  • Job

• These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Follow
  • Hot
  • Whatever

• From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Beginning

• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

  

  Vanity
  • Character
  • Beginning

• This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beginning

• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Good
  • Business
  • Christian

• I didn't really like snowboarding in the beginning. Now, I just love it. I'm in love with it.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Beginning

• The '90s and early 2000s were the 'I' decade. iPhone, the iPod - everything was about me. Look where that got us? In a terrible recession.

  

  Adam Neumann

• If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • American
  • Community

• I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Good
  • Kid
  • Gymnastics

• Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

  

  Isabelle Holland
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