Top 75 Hollander Quotes
#1. The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press.
Sweyn Plowright
#2. You've got sunscreen on, right?" ...
"You didn't get your back," Zane said, picking up a bottle of sunscreen and pouring some onto his hand.
Her legs almost gave out and her heart pounded in her ears. Zane Hollander was about to go where no man had gone before and lotion her back.
Robin Bielman
#3. You think everything revolves around Zane Hollander, don't you?"
"No. But I think your blush does.
Robin Bielman
#4. Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women." --Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander
Amanda Barton
#6. Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.
Nicole Hollander
#7. I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.
Tom Hollander
#8. Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it
Dory Hollander
#11. I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
Xaviera Hollander
#12. When Adam found his rib was gone
He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
And looked with cold resentment on
The creature God has used it for.
John Hollander
#13. I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.
Tom Hollander
#15. This is not a Jewish story. It's a human story. If people don't know the truth about the Holocaust, then it could happen again to anybody, anywhere, at any time to any race or any color.
Gloria Hollander Lyon
#16. As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album, read the lyrics, and just spend hours and hours in there. Plus, my sister Laurie played piano (in fact she taught me my first few notes) so music was always around one way or another.
Andrew Hollander
#17. Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.
Nicole Hollander
#18. If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.
Tom Hollander
#19. People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.
Anne Hollander
#21. I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.
Tom Hollander
#22. I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.
Tom Hollander
#23. Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
Xaviera Hollander
#24. Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
Anne Hollander
#25. You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.
Xaviera Hollander
#26. I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
Tom Hollander
#27. My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.
Xaviera Hollander
#28. Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.
Nicole Hollander
#29. Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.
John Hollander
#30. In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
Nicole Hollander
#31. My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.
Tom Hollander
#34. We and the trees and the way
Back from the fields of play
Lasted as long as we could.
No more walks in the wood.
John Hollander
#35. Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon ...
Nicole Hollander
#36. You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!
Xaviera Hollander
#37. I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.
Tom Hollander
#38. Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.
Xaviera Hollander
#40. Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
Tom Hollander
#41. My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.
Tom Hollander
#42. Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
Tom Hollander
#43. A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
Xaviera Hollander
#44. I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
Xaviera Hollander
#45. I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.
Tom Hollander
#46. Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.
John Hollander
#47. I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
Tom Hollander
#48. The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
Tom Hollander
#49. You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.
Tom Hollander
#51. I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.
Tom Hollander
#52. My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.
Tom Hollander
#53. Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.
Tom Hollander
#54. more than half of all houses in Mexico City are located in unhealthy, unsafe areas.
Kurt Hollander
#55. A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.
John Hollander
#56. When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
Tom Hollander
#57. I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
Tom Hollander
#58. We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.
John Hollander
#59. You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
Tom Hollander
#60. I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.
Tom Hollander
#61. Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
Tom Hollander
#62. Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.
Tom Hollander
#64. To understand
The signs that stars compose, we need depend
Only on stars that are entirely there
And the apparent space between them. There
Never need be lines between them, puzzling
Our sense of what is what.
John Hollander
#65. For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.
Tom Hollander
#66. I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.
Tom Hollander
#67. Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, chubby women.
Nicole Hollander
#68. Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
Tom Hollander
#69. If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
Tom Hollander
#70. I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.
Tom Hollander
#71. People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
Tom Hollander
#73. We all know how cats feel about traveling in a car. You never see a cat with his head out the window, fur flying in the breeze. A cat is never anyone's designated driver.
Nicole Hollander
#74. Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.
Nicole Hollander
#75. In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
Tom Hollander
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