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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Romantic Kiss Sound Echo Deal

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys' table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

Table Damn Reason Nuclear Weapons

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

Best You Something Going Should

Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.

Phone May Computer Everybody Them

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just for the love of music and for the love of what bands were standing for.

Love Music First Standing Playing

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

Women Sports Men Think I Can Tennis

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Truth Woman Compliment Never Who

If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.

People Eye Hurt Uncomfortable You

While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.

Men Police Me Wall Him Out

Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they're still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith.

Deborah Mailman

Good Faith Talent People Stupid

Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.

Music Discovery Nobody New Geography

I'm hungry in the ways that every artist is, but I also have this extra layer. I've done a lot of things that were consciously not for money, but because I'm so convinced I'm going to die in my mid-30s, I'm like, 'That's not what's important. Doing cool stuff and having that legacy is what's important.'

Money Cool Legacy Die Doing Artist

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

Christopher Miller

You Need Reason Up Side Come

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