Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NobodyWhyThingsUsGiveSomebody

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

Jenni Rivera

MusicProblemsThinkSomeoneWant

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

Jennette McCurdy

LoveMistakePeopleThinkYou

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Matthew Prior

EndTwoOnlyQuarrelTakes

Music has been my greatest passion forever.

Ruth B

MusicPassionForeverGreatestBeen

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

PeopleFeelSomeoneYouPersonal

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Michael Polanyi

LightOrganizationProblemsChoice

We all want to be carried away to a whole other world and have romantic tendencies about escaping to an exotic place and being swept off our feet.

Lotte Verbeek

RomanticWorldFeetPlaceWantOff

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

Louise Bourgeois

FatherMotherMeControlAmerica

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Jose Saramago

AmericaYouBadWillBackyardOnly

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.

Anthony Burgess

GoodMoneyWaitWritingBookEnjoy

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

Wong Kar-wai

SleepSunglassesFestivalsGoWant

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Richard Carlson

StressNothingMental IllnessMore

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