Holgerson Quotes & Sayings

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. — Dorothy Hamill

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat. — Bobby Fischer

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."
-from "That intention is judge of our actions — Michel De Montaigne

"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise." — Joseph Henry Shorthouse

There is something in me I cannot quite explain - it is like peace infected with the sweetest pain. — Anitta Krizzan

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need. — Ryan Gosling

They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length. — Andrew Mitchell

Your life is truly your life ... it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well — Lance Wubbels

A Mexican newspaper recently ran a story about how the Converse shoe company was making tennis shoes in China using Mexican glue. "The whole article was about why are we giving them our glue," said Zedillo, "when the right attitude would be, How much more glue can we sell them? We still need to break some mental barriers. — Thomas L. Friedman

A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression" - from "The Art of Fiction — Henry James

Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves. — John Wooden

For years, every conversation she had with a man had been colored by calculation. Would she put him off is she spoke her mind? What did he want her to say? When a man took a mistress, he purchased not just the rights to her body, but the content of her thoughts. Sir Mark wanted her as she was, not as he wished her to be. The thought made her head hurt. — Courtney Milan