Isabelle Holland Quotes

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Isabelle Holland

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• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Home
  • Path
  • Hiking

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Financial
  • Decisions

• The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Energy
  • Unique

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Character
  • Singing
  • English

• New York's definitely got my heart.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Heart
  • New
  • Got

• Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Feel

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Great
  • Girl

• Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Like
  • Check

• Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Today
  • Gay
  • Economics

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Golf

• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

  

  Freya Stark
  • Mistake
  • Belief
  • Fallacy

• ...and then he and Roo pushed each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Roo accidentally knocked over one on purpose, and Kanga said, 'Now then, run along.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Purpose

• We come from geek culture, we come from the free software movement, we have a lot of technologists involved. If we had done the same sort of comparison on poets or artists, I think that we would not have fared nearly as well.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Done
  • Free
  • Culture

• This deal means that we get in the city of Pittsburgh a brand new arena, a $280 million facility that does not cost the taxpayer a single cent. This is the only plan that presents a tax-free, brand new structure for the city of Pittsburgh.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Free
  • City
  • Single

• You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

  

  Isabelle Holland
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • You Do