J. G. Holland Quotes

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

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• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Sleep

• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Age
  • Space
  • Start

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Time
  • Change
  • Tree

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Think
  • Moral
  • Animals

• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Love
  • Big
  • Crowd

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• We grow small trying to be great.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Small

• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Need
  • Sympathy

• I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I'd guess that every American action film would be different. It's just training, training hard, training a lot. Then trying to give your best performance on the day, and I've been lucky so far.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Different
  • Trying
  • American

• Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Up

• In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!

  

  John Badham
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Black

• We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

  

  J. G. Holland
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