Hollaras Quotes & Sayings

Avoid popularity if you would have peace — Abraham Lincoln

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. — Nick Cave

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. — H.G.Wells

I think that Shake Shack wouldn't exist had it not been for Twitter. I don't think you would have gotten a hundred New Yorkers to stand in line for an hour if they couldn't have made their time really productive and organized snowball fights, ordered free hot chocolate, and, you know, Instagrammed photos. — Danny Meyer

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty. — Christina Zilber

I am forever being captured these days. It isn't like me at all. You must think me such a silly princess. — Philip Reeve

Why are you so stuck up?' she asked, truculently.
'I'm just made that way.'
'You ought to fight it.'
'I can't see why. — Anthony Powell

Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911. — Jarett Kobek

You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you. — Daniel Suarez

What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit. — Lucy Ellmann

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know. — Jeff Kinney

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. — Cory Doctorow