Top 100 Hollis Quotes
#1. As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
Ja Rule
#2. Bismillah." Then he picked up his fork. "That's it?" Hollis wondered. "That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry.
John Green
#3. I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.
Donnie Fritts
#4. People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
Adam Duritz
#5. Hollis Copper knows that everyone has a story and if you want to speak to someone, you better find a way to speak to his or her story.
Chuck Wendig
#6. Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace,
Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis
Wouldn't exchange the love and fame
Attached to their loved ones' names
Just to have 'em still alive in their arms?
Kelvin Mercer
#7. There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.
Ray Bradbury
#8. Just remember that when you're talking to my grandmother, you're talking to Atsuko Hollis, the White Fox. And she can f**k you up."
"Well, who the hell can't at this point?" I muttered.
M.L. Brennan
#9. The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters.
William Gibson
#10. Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.
William Gibson
#11. Teachers Lounge is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn Lounge into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.
Ted Alexandro
#12. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.
James Hollis
#13. Tequila makes me dream up things like dance battles.
Rachel Hollis
#14. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.
Hollis Stacy
#15. Your integrity is the only thing they can't take away from you.
Rachel Hollis
#16. In short, the greatest gift of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we are obliged to grow larger than we had planned.
James Hollis
#17. When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.
Hollis Stacy
#18. David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision
James Hollis
#19. We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.
James Hollis
#20. The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.
Hollis Alpert
#21. He kisses me once more, on the forehead this time, and then he's gone. And I know I'm young, and fairly inexperienced where men are concerned, but I'm positive that even when I'm 90 years old I'll still remember exactly what it feels like to have his lips on my skin" ~Landon Brinkley
Rachel Hollis
#22. I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.
Hollis Stacy
#24. Don't let anyone hold you back.
Decide that you will not be held back by anyone for any reason. Life is a forward moving force!
Michelle Word Hollis
#25. Destiny commands ... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life ... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings ...
James Hollis
#26. the task is not to find the object115 but to live the journey, with passion, and risk, and commitment, and danger.
James Hollis
#27. The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity.
James Hollis
#28. If we are not willing to risk all, again, then we are precluded from intimacy.
James Hollis
#29. I always thought our relationships were stronger than those of regular siblings because we didn't have a blood obligation to love each other; we chose to, which is way more powerful.
Rachel Hollis
#30. Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.
Hollis Stacy
#31. The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.
James Hollis
#33. When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness.
James Hollis
#34. The "gift" of tragedy is not destruction, but humility
James Hollis
#35. ...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.
Hollis Gillespie
#36. No one can make you dwell on the past.
Control your thoughts and actions! Make your own decisions! Just because someone keeps bringing up your past doesn't mean you have to accept it --- you are not obligated to accommodate their recollections of you.
Michelle Word Hollis
#37. I'm sure that there are plenty of intelligent people who don't read a lot, but I can't imagine how they stand life without being surrounded by the comfort and knowledge in books.
Hollis Shiloh
#38. The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
James Hollis
#39. Walnut Trees of Altenburg: The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness.2
James Hollis
#40. Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal.
Rachel Hollis
#41. The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
James Hollis
#42. To be mindful of our fragile fate each day, in a non-morbid acknowledgment, helps us remember what is important in our life and what is not, what matters, really, and what does not.
James Hollis
#43. If you're tired of watching rerun movies on television you're in luck, there are hundreds of thousands of books that are movies in text.
Dale Hollis
#44. (It has become clear to me, for example, that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency, and bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.)
James Hollis
#45. Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. William Wordsworth,
James Hollis
#46. I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.
Hollis Stacy
#47. Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.
Hollis Seamon
#48. most people just consider her to be a twenty-one-year-old girl without a major, a partner, or any life plans. People keep trying to force this idea on her that if she doesn't get her life together before her thirties, she will be useless to the world.
M. Hollis
#49. The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.
James Hollis
#50. When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.
Hollis Stacy
#51. One of the bridges between sexes, to be sure, is sex. But men, too often feeling deficient in discourse, place too much emphasis on intercourse.
James Hollis
#52. Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'
Hollis Stacy
#54. Personal transformation is an internal job.
No one can change you without you first wanting the change for yourself. The transformation starts in your thoughts! Only you can decide to change your thoughts and thus your behavior.
Michelle Word Hollis
#55. It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.
Hollis Seamon
#56. People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.
Rachel Hollis
#57. Don't make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!
Michelle Word Hollis
#58. This is the worst! Worse than that time I finished all the books that had been published so far in a series a full year before the final book came out.
Rachel Hollis
#60. To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.
James Hollis
#61. The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.
Hollis Stacy
#63. That grace was offering someone the opposite of what they deserve. Life's just full of opportunities for that.
Rachel Hollis
#64. Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.
James Hollis
#65. The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.
Hollis Stacy
#66. Imagination is the elixir of life. Slurp often, I do.
Kristal Hollis
#67. The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.
Hollis Stacy
#68. To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.
James Hollis
#69. To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.
Hollis Frampton
#70. A fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.
James Hollis
#71. What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
James Hollis
#72. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.
James Hollis
#73. Nobody gets to tell you how big your dreams can be.
Rachel Hollis
#74. We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.
James Hollis
#75. Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.
James Hollis
#76. In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.
James Hollis
#77. I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.
Rachel Hollis
#78. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!
Theresa Hollis
#79. The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.
James Hollis
#80. Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
Alan Moore
#81. A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.
Hollis Frampton
#82. If I had a power color, it would definitely be SPARKLE" ~Landon Brinkley
Rachel Hollis
#83. It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.
Rachel Hollis
#84. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.
James Hollis
#85. The transient vacuities of our cultural icons - success, peace, happiness, and distraction - pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.
James Hollis
#86. Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try.
Rachel Hollis
#88. There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called "midlife crisis" exists.
James Hollis
#89. I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.
Hollis Stacy
#90. The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
James Hollis
#91. I used to read those bits about finding your other half, and I totally bought into it. But that's not the way it works. Two half people don't make a whole. You've got to be completely whole on your own before you can be one half of anything.
Rachel Hollis
#92. This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.
Hollis Seamon
#93. Never let a temporary problem cause you to make a permanent wrong decision.
Michelle Word Hollis
#94. When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.
Hollis Frampton
#96. Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
Hollis Stacy
#97. The sons shaped their feet with the shoes of their fathers. To the plight of their mothers, the daughters surrendered their dreams." - "THE RIVER," LARRY D. THOMAS
James Hollis
#98. You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.
Rachel Hollis
#99. The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.
James Hollis
#100. Maturity isn't something you wrap around you like a coat. Maturity is like the T-shirt you get for walking in a 5K: you can only put it on if you go through the experience first.
Rachel Hollis
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