Houlding Quotes

#1. If you don't almost fail, then it wasn't hard enough

Leo Houlding

#2. We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.

Stephanie Lawton

#3. In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

Leo Houlding

#4. When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Francesca Lia Block

#5. She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.

Edith Wharton

#6. I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

Sarah Bolger

#7. Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#8. Geliebten Lakaien are once again here with us. Lisa, Heddy, Henrietta, Peter, and Jean Pierre,

Anne Rice

#9. Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.

Patricia Cornwell

#10. You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.

Maureen Johnson

#11. Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

Elizabeth McCracken

#12. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.

Kanye West

#13. Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Margaret Fuller

#14. I think again about pulling my hands away -- but Snow could light fires in my palms at this point, and I wouldn't pull away. It feels like he has.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness ... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#16. I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

Cynthia Payne