Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveMusicTimePeopleDieReady

The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.

Jimmy Fallon

PeopleFirstAudienceStayShot

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

Jennifer Hudson

LoveChildParentsLovedYouKnow

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

Max McKeown

BusinessPeopleAmbitionSucceedYou

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

Andy Warhol

PeopleYouWigWearNoticeThen

Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio.

Sturgill Simpson

GreatMeNobodyHeadBeenStudio

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Martin Rees

HopeWillCraftSolarSystemBeen

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

SuccessFailurePermanentFatal

If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

Jay Parini

SoulIdeasRoadThinkGeniusBody

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

Derek Kilmer

WifeAirplaneSittingWayScholar

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

Donald Trump

WantFairFirmTrader

What I'm about to say won't be popular, but it's true: If being a television showrunner is the job you want, and you are a woman, I would not suggest you have children. The reality is that you just cannot do both well.

Courtney A. Kemp

ChildrenJobWomanRealityYouTrue

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

Common

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