Barbara Holland Quotes

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

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• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Different
  • Roles
  • System

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

  

  Ian Dury
  • Moon
  • Fists
  • Shaken

• I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Businesses
  • Board
  • Recession

• It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Home
  • Lake

• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

  

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

• I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the '90s.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Lost

• I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

  

  Alexis Arquette
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

  

  Bram Fischer

• Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Why
  • Alone

• I think we're going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, 'How did it take so long for you to figure this out?'

  

  Phil Lord
  • People
  • Long
  • Women

• I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

  

  Jake Bugg
  • Music

• I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Fun

• The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

  

  James Buchan
  • History

• Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Practice

• If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Law
  • Violence

• The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Friend
  • Understand
  • Dress

• There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Picture
  • Tree
  • Wind

• In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Friend
  • Argument
  • Foreign Policy