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Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 24, 1819 - October 12, 1881

Topics

Man World Affection Thing

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Home Time Me Doctor Living Way

I lived in my car in Hollywood for a year, and then it got towed. My... apartment got towed. How... does that happen?

Car Year Hollywood Apartment Lived

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Thought Better Anchor Nonsense Out

We always need little reminders that it's gonna be all good.

Good Need Always Little Reminders

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Family Humor Me Friends Sometimes

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Children You Know Never Delight Get

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

Great Time Together Job Negative

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Christopher Lasch

Society Ownership Addiction Organized

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

New York City Remember Buildings New

I like to think that I'm extremely method with my tactics on getting work.

Work Think Tactics Like Method

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

God Beer Voice Soft Brown Full

I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

January School Parents Born Teachers

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