Geoffrey Holder Quotes

#1. You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

Mark Ronson

#3. I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage ... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

Geoffrey Holder

#4. Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

Geoffrey Holder

#5. I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Jim Garrison

#6. We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Geoffrey Holder

#7. I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

Geoffrey Holder

#8. I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Geoffrey Holder

#9. And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

Jane Yolen

#10. Never be ashamed of asking for tap water in restaurants. It is only embarrassing and a sign of poorness in Europe. (According to The English, England is not part of Europe. Never has been, never will be. England is England, not part of anything.)

Angela Kiss

#11. I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

Orlando Bloom

#12. He showed a video of a seemingly crazy man dancing all by himself at an outdoor concert. The man stands on the side of a hill, shirtless and barefoot, gesticulating wildly and having the time of his life.

Eric Schmidt

#13. Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

Robert Greene

#14. Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. While every president since Gerald Ford has upheld an executive order banning assassinations by U.S. personnel, Congress has avoided legislating the issue or even defining the word assassination.

Jeremy Scahill

#15. Happiness is loving your enemies.

Charles M. Schulz

#16. I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Katherine Jenkins

#17. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

Matthew Engel

#18. The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

G. Stanley Hall

#19. Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Klaus Schulze

#20. Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets no one's expectation but its internal need to feel.

Yiyun Li