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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935

Topics

Life Time Opportunities Half Most

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

Work Small Book Reading Plan You

'Sex and the City' didn't change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.

Jessica Williams

Change New York City Sex New Show

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

Programming Through Watch Commercials

Each visible planet is the embodiment of a great and exalted spiritual intelligence Who is the minister of God in that department of His Kingdom, endeavoring to carry out His Will, the latter having in view the ultimate highest good, regardless of temporary ill.

Good God Great Intelligence View

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

Hate People Want Reaction More Over

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

Work Good Appreciate Someone You

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.

Me Impact Remember Dark First Kid

I like to be home every night with my family.

Family Home Night Like Every

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.

Myself Thought Always Singer Before

Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.

Book Thought Laugh Write Starting

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope You Stop Now Aim High

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.

Chiang Kai-shek

Time Food Government War Important

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