Holcker Quotes & Sayings

I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women. — Leonard Shlain

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning. — Rob Lowe

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands. — Ann Cleeves

Your praying and your preaching should be of the same length. You don't want to find yourself limping, with one leg shorter than the other. God works as a result of prayer and faithfulness, not technique and cleverness. But — N. T. Wright

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting. — Van Heflin

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. — Marek Hlasko

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done. — Alice Munro

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table. — Si Robertson

You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting. — Kurt Vonnegut

A jeweler will prefer the smallest fragment of diamond to several sapphires; and so, in the order established by God, our intimacy with Him gives Him more glory than all possible good, procured by us, for a great number of souls, but to the detriment of our own progress. Our Heavenly Father, "who devotes Himself more to the direction of a soul in which He reigns, than to the natural government of the whole universe and to the civil government of all empires," looks for this harmony in our zeal. — Jean-Baptiste Chautard

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world. — Ed Koch

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. — John Lasseter