J. G. Holland Quotes
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
J. G. Holland
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Beck
As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V. E. Schwab
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
Warren Farrell
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
Patrick Fugit
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
Warren Spector
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
Laura Benanti
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards
Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.
Lord Byron
So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.
L. Ron Hubbard
I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
Amish Tripathi
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Bernadette Devlin
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
J. G. Holland