Top 100 Holt Quotes
#1. Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
Harold Edward Holt
#2. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#3. Dear God, Holt looks good in that costume. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo.
Leisa Rayven
#4. The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.'
Lester Holt
#5. We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and be killed.It is what opens the gate.
Simon Holt
#6. Of the authors' imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt
Desiree Holt
#7. I'm not terribly athletic. And ... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I was really a pretty bad math student growing up.
Lester Holt
#8. Only a teen girl would be afraid of an evil hairstylist.
Simon Holt
#9. Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.
Tom Holt
#10. You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic?
Tom Holt
#11. I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#12. You've got to wake up every morning and believe, 'I was born to do this.'
Holt McCallany
#13. The dark has teeth and it will bite,
It feasts begins on Sorry Night.
When cold and fear are intertwined,
They'll chew up your heart and feed on your mind.
Where have the souls gone? What do they see?
The gateway to Hell's eternity.
Simon Holt
#14. Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
Jim Holt
#15. I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#16. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#17. I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.
Holt McCallany
#18. Does mathematics carry its own ontological clout?
Jim Holt
#19. Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.
Rush D. Holt Jr.
#20. Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.
John Holt
#21. There are very severe penalties for being a bad student but no penalties at all for being a bad teacher." The
John Holt
#22. I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.
Brian Van Holt
#23. You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.
Holt McCallany
#24. There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.
Tom Holt
#25. Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square ...
Tom Holt
#26. The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
Tom Holt
#27. There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.
Tom Holt
#28. After all, why be right when you can be happy.
Tom Holt
#29. I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida ... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#30. Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
Brian Van Holt
#31. What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.
John Holt
#32. There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It's not being with them as much as you like.
Georgia Holt
#34. Whoever has said these things is a fool." "Aye, but the words of a fool hold weight with other fools.
Samantha Holt
#35. Holt did nothing of the sort. He wasn't the 'obeying' kind of dog.
Kellyn Roth
#36. They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.
Simon Holt
#37. At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
Tom Holt
#38. one reason why schooling is so seldom helpful to children, and almost always deeply harmful, is that they have no reality of encounter with their teachers. The teachers are not themselves, but players of roles. They
John Holt
#39. Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
John Holt
#40. I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
Holt McCallany
#41. American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.
Tom Holt
#42. Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.
Lester Holt
#43. I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.
Lester Holt
#44. I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
Olivia Holt
#45. It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.
Tom Holt
#46. Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap
Tom Holt
#47. My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
Olivia Holt
#48. A problem's nothing but an opportunity wearing a funny hat, and inside every disaster there's a triumph struggling to get out.
Tom Holt
#49. You're Insane-Molly
You know what they say. It's the ones who are sure they are sane that aren't. -Holt
Allison Leigh
#50. The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Jim Holt
#51. I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don't get fazed by cameras too much.
Sandrine Holt
#52. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.
Thaddeus Holt
#53. I cleared my throat and looked up at him. "I'll just get dressed and meet you in the hall."
He nodded. "I'll have the nurse ready your chariot."
"My chariot?"
He shrugged sheepishly. "I thought that sounded better than wheelchair."
I grinned. "Totally better.
Cambria Hebert
#54. Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims
Simon Holt
#55. It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.
John Holt
#57. I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.
Olivia Holt
#58. You think like a boxer and behave like a boxer, and you try to live your life that way, being in the gym all the time and being careful to push the plate away at the dinner table. You don't need dessert. When you're out having fun, you ask for agua instead of vodka. It's very important.
Holt McCallany
#59. Holt, there aren't many people in the world who connect like we do, for whatever reason, and saying that we shouldn't feel it isn't going to make it go away. One day you might figure that out, but by then it'll be too late.
Leisa Rayven
#60. I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
Olivia Holt
#61. I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.
Olivia Holt
#62. That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?
Tom Holt
#63. Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.
Tom Holt
#64. Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#65. Freshman year. We made it. And with only one body possession and one accidental death to our names
Simon Holt
#66. Instead of being an inert object, nothingness would appear to be a dynamic thing, a sort of annihilating force.
Jim Holt
#67. As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.
Lester Holt
#68. He could hear rain pattering on the thatch, like a million mice line-dancing.
Tom Holt
#69. I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.
Lester Holt
#70. If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#71. Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are.
John Holt
#72. Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'
Lester Holt
#73. he said: (1) accept yourself, (2) forget yourself, (3) find something to do and to care about that is more important to you than you are.
John Holt
#74. I have come to believe that forgiveness is the key to survival. It does no good to see everything as a struggle between opposing factions. Few things are that simple.
Elliott Holt
#75. My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
David Holt
#76. On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.
Lester Holt
#77. You do trust him, though, Giddon?"
"Holt, who is stealing your sculptures and is of questionable mental health?"
"Yes."
"I trusted him five minutes ago. Now I'm at a bit of a loss."
"Your opinion five minutes ago is good enough for me.
Kristin Cashore
#78. Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.
Rush D. Holt Jr.
#79. This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.
Rush D. Holt Jr.
#80. Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?
Tom Holt
#81. It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy
Simon Holt
#82. If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.
Holt McCallany
#83. People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.
Georgia Holt
#84. It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.
Jim Holt
#85. You're a fireman?" I asked. "You're the one who ... ?"
He nodded. "I'm a firefighter."
"You threw me into a pool." I scowled.
He grinned. "You were on fire."
"Well, there is that," I allowed.
Cambria Hebert
#86. He made a conscious decision not to think about it, and accordingly spent the rest of his shift thinking about nothing else.
Tom Holt
#87. Lusty blacksmiths and naughty princesses. Now that's scary
Simon Holt
#88. we can trust children to find out about the world, and that when trusted, they do find out.
John Holt
#89. I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.
Lester Holt
#90. I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
Olivia Holt
#91. You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'
Lester Holt
#92. To be honest, I kind of dress like a 15-year-old boy. And I probably live like a 15-year-old boy, too.
Sandrine Holt
#93. I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#94. No!" Amy said. "Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family."
"And that would've been bad because ... ?
Rick Riordan
#95. When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.
Tom Holt
#96. I think you inhaled too much lead from those scantron sheets
Simon Holt
#97. See Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson "Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research," Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (2005).
Douglas Holt
#98. With SPD one can be over-responsive or under-responsive.
M. Holt
#99. The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know
and acknowledge what you don't know.
Lester Holt
#100. We knew the boys weren't worthy of passing judgment on us. And yet we spent our lives chasing approval.
Elliott Holt
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