Josiah G Holland Quotes

#1. Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

Jonathan Lethem

#2. But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

Thomas Haden Church

#3. Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#4. France implemented a law in 1800 that said women could not wear pants; it was not formally removed until 2013.

Jenny Nordberg

#5. If God meant for pictures to be sent through the air He'd have never would have given us cinema. Or the national gallery.

Alan Bradley

#6. The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#7. Ideals are the world's masters.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#8. The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#9. Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?
Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

Toba Beta

#10. Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#11. 'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#12. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#13. The temple of art is built in words.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#14. There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#15. Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#16. The most procession that ever comes to a man in this world is a women's heart.

Josiah G Holland AKA Timothy Titcomb

#17. What are we? What is our life? Our goodness? Our righteousness? - THE ASHAMNU, the Jewish shorter confession

Larissa MacFarquhar

#18. Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#19. Joys divided are increased.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#20. All in all, Peter's love of being Peter was so great that like an overfilled bucket of paint it slopped over even in the smallest moments of his day.

Brian McGreevy

#21. A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#22. The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland