Holbrook Quotes
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Holbrook Quotes & Sayings
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We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
— Michael Holbrook
We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
— Hal Holbrook
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
— Holbrook Jackson
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
— Boyd Holbrook
There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
— Boyd Holbrook
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
— Holbrook Jackson
In times of conflict, we're all peers.
— Michael Holbrook
When in doubt, risk it
— Holbrook Jackson
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.
— Holbrook Jackson
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
— Holbrook Jackson
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
— Boyd Holbrook
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Originality is only variation.
— Holbrook Jackson
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
— Holbrook Jackson
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
— Holbrook Jackson
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
— Holbrook Jackson
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
— Holbrook Jackson
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
— Holbrook Jackson
People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.
— Holbrook Jackson
Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
— Holbrook Jackson
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
— Holbrook Jackson
Change is inevitable but progress is truly optional.
— Don A. Holbrook
Forgive everybody but yourself.
— Holbrook Jackson
I'm country to the bone.
— Boyd Holbrook
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
— Hal Holbrook
There's no good guys and bad guys.
— Hal Holbrook
Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
— Holbrook Jackson
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
— Holbrook Jackson
If you can't find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you'll never find it under a tree.
— Michael Holbrook
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
— Holbrook Jackson
I like to be who I am.
— Hal Holbrook
Happiness is a form of courage.
— Holbrook Jackson
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
— Holbrook Jackson
I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.
— Hal Holbrook
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
— Holbrook Jackson
No man is ever old enough to know better.
— Holbrook Jackson
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
— Holbrook Jackson
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
— Holbrook Jackson
Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.
— Michael Holbrook
Be contented, when you have got all you want.
— Holbrook Jackson
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
— Holbrook Jackson
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
— Holbrook Jackson
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.
— Hal Holbrook
Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.
— Michael Holbrook
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
— Holbrook Jackson
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
— Holbrook Jackson
Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
— Holbrook Jackson
Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
— Holbrook Jackson
So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.
— Anthony Edwards
Genius is initiative on fire.
— Holbrook Jackson
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
— Hal Holbrook
Genius is intuition on fire.
— Holbrook Jackson
I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
— Hal Holbrook
Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you'll never have all of them. And that's okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.
— Michael Holbrook
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
— Hal Holbrook
I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.
— Boyd Holbrook
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.
— Hal Holbrook
I have a suicide impulse.
— Hal Holbrook
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
— Hal Holbrook
Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.
— Hal Holbrook
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
— Holbrook Jackson
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
— Holbrook Jackson
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
— Holbrook Jackson
The better the book the more room for the reader.
— Holbrook Jackson