J. G. Holland Quotes

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

J. G. Holland

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• When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Small
  • First
  • Chinese

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Important
  • Play

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I try to photobomb as much as possible.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Much

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • I Believe

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Start

• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Flow
  • Charge

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  

  Peter Welch
  • People
  • Help
  • Night

• I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • See
  • Hear
  • Whatever

• More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Earth

• I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Remember

• Music was always in my blood but my dad being a musician made me want to love something else so my efforts went towards sports and dance. I always new in the back of my mind that I wanted to be a performer and not until my life got a little more complicated did music present itself as my only option.

  

  Sierra Swan The Black Eyed Peas
  • Life
  • Music
  • Option

• Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Affinity