Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

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GreatLieSailWindMovingWorld

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Jerry Saltz

GoodArtBetterFeelLearnWeek

The best way to express rhythm is music.

John Hartford

MusicBestWayRhythmBest Way

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

Maya Angelou

GirlTruthBlackYouKnowWant

When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear Christian rap is something very different from what I do.

Trip Lee

MyselfI AmPeopleMeThinkSay

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

Mat Kearney

KnowUrgencyConnectedHip-HopMuch

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

Martine Syms

WordsWritingAdvertisingMeaning

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Miranda Leek

MeTryingTeachPianoSomethingHe

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Mira Nair

FeelDreamNostalgiaPlaceKnow

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

CommunityAloneGovernmentHomeless

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

Debra Winger

FamilyMeLovingNiceWayNeed

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Philip Johnson

ArtArchitectureSpaceDesign

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

Seth MacFarlane

DayJobMindYouStrangePlaces

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