Tom Holt quote: "Only please, do be careful to bear in mind that Mordak’s a goblin. Enlightened, yes, but a goblin. He likes his employees loyal or lightly steamed on a bed of bruised rocket."

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TOM HOLT

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunch...
TOM HOLT

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one even...
TOM HOLT

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged...
TOM HOLT

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not...
TOM HOLT

Georgie paused on the threshold for a moment as if hesitant to enter the habitation of such a perjur...
TOM HOLT

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in th...
TOM HOLT

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
TOM HOLT

I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the pian...
TOM HOLT

Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignor...
TOM HOLT

The purpose of this meeting is to request participation and invite comments from a broad range of lo...
TOM HOLT

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on i...
TOM HOLT

All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't b...
TOM HOLT

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter wh...
TOM HOLT

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.
TOM HOLT

The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. ...
LESTER HOLT

I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
OLIVIA HOLT

My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that a...
OLIVIA HOLT

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, i...
OLIVIA HOLT

I would definitely trade clothes with Lucy Hale. Her fashion sense is right on point, and I feel lik...
OLIVIA HOLT

What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other...
OLIVIA HOLT

Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so...
OLIVIA HOLT

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're danc...
OLIVIA HOLT

The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work...
OLIVIA HOLT

I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
OLIVIA HOLT

I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favor...
OLIVIA HOLT

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was...
OLIVIA HOLT

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different em...
OLIVIA HOLT

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainmen...
OLIVIA HOLT

My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
OLIVIA HOLT

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
OLIVIA HOLT

I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I...
OLIVIA HOLT

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.
OLIVIA HOLT

I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real...
OLIVIA HOLT

One year, I was a go-go girl for Halloween, and I got all this glitter eye shadow, my hair was poufy...
OLIVIA HOLT

I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for...
OLIVIA HOLT

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing...
HOLT MCCALLANY

When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocket...
LESTER HOLT

We played well defensively tonight. We also rebounded well and shot pretty good from the floor. It h...
ADAM HOLT

Most of the uptake in Xbox 360 will be driven mainly by demand from U.S., Europe and rest of Asia Pa...
ADAM HOLT

As investors begin to focus on fiscal year 2007 and estimates continue to move higher, the stock sho...
ADAM HOLT

It should be a good time and a great experience.
ADAM HOLT

It was a largely in-line quarter. The outlook was in-line to modestly better from a revenue perspect...
ADAM HOLT

The contributions from Siebel were appropriately conservative. And the (operating expenditure) syner...
ADAM HOLT

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want ...
JOHN HOLT

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teac...
JOHN HOLT

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know w...
JOHN HOLT

No doubt to teach one's own children...takes special qualities. But these are qualities that many p...
JOHN HOLT

Education
JOHN HOLT

If you are happy with the way things are in the schools, and your children are happy and fulfilled, ...
JOHN HOLT

I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I ...
LESTER HOLT

As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role ...
LESTER HOLT

I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced...
LESTER HOLT

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of...
LESTER HOLT

If you don't learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.
SIMON HOLT

If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.
SIMON HOLT

Kelsey ran a 14:14, which is very good,
ANDY HOLT

Graham ran well. He got ninth against some stiff competition. There were 18 teams for the boys and a...
ANDY HOLT

That's the key thing and the most important thing is that it looks like everybody is getting better ...
ANDY HOLT

I would urged Nico Hinds to hand himself in to the police.
ANDY HOLT

She ran well and had a good kick at the end, which tells me and tells her than she can run a little ...
ANDY HOLT

You can't miss us. We'll have sweet corn all over, everywhere.
ANN HOLT

But if there hasn't been any corn on shelves of grocery stores, maybe people will be ready to eat co...
ANN HOLT

The payment is based on the stage of the corn. You don't get much for young corn plants.
ANN HOLT

It seems like another slap in the face. Mother Nature has not been kind to our growers.
ANN HOLT

It was 26 degrees at 1 o'clock. There was ice everywhere.
ANN HOLT

From what I gather, our growers lost at least 75 to 80 percent of all the corn that was above the gr...
ANN HOLT

It keeps growing and we keep having to get a bigger tent for them. Anybody can enter but professiona...
ANN HOLT

They have to take turns as their hands tire.
ANN HOLT

The only way to get fresher corn is to go to the field yourself.
ANN HOLT

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that ...
LESTER HOLT

Skype is one of the world's greatest inventions. I use it almost daily to connect with the peopl...
CLAIRE HOLT

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting f...
LESTER HOLT

Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.
SIMON HOLT

When dark creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For in the winter'...
SIMON HOLT

I really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors...
LESTER HOLT

This means that we'll, if we win the final two league games, at least finish tied for the lead in ou...
BRIAN HOLT

We knew it would be a tough one. Our series was tied up at one with us winning just a few days ago. ...
BRIAN HOLT

It's asking for trouble. It's trying to make the highest mark and be king of the hill. When you go u...
BRIAN HOLT

The guys did a great job out there tonight. They hustled, they worked hard out there and they kept t...
BRIAN HOLT

This was a big win here for us today. Killer did great tonight. He was stopping almost everything th...
BRIAN HOLT

It was our second game of the year, we hadn't established any lines and we were rusty. Oh yeah (they...
BRIAN HOLT

(This game) has become our rival. It was physical. You have two teams that are fast, the tempo is hi...
BRIAN HOLT

When you cut young programs you do more damage than good. You don't save that much, you save the coa...
BOB HOLT

We feel our athletic programs are worth it, that they are a great investment for the district. We th...
BOB HOLT

The athletes can be under cover if they're not competing, instead of having to stand there and get s...
BOB HOLT

Next year we can go right out the door and be on our fields.
BOB HOLT

Every time the truckers stop, there's ladies that come around and pick on the door. The devil's tryi...
BOB HOLT

Really it's kind of fun in a way because we get to play teams from other parts of the state, which i...
BOB HOLT

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had troub...
BOB HOLT

We need for next year. We've run out of reserves.
BOB HOLT

The lawsuit is not doing anything to the process. We have to move forward, just like with scheduling...
BOB HOLT

We'd have a lot of trouble going back to the old school now. And everyone will feel great about this...
BOB HOLT

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming a...
LESTER HOLT

There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. Going t...
GEORGIA HOLT

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in d...
SANDRINE HOLT

As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do m...
LESTER HOLT

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
VICTORIA HOLT

There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.
RITA HOLT

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish ...
HAMILTON HOLT

I've become completely obsessed with Netflix original programming. 'House of Cards' and ...
CLAIRE HOLT

There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I&...
SANDRINE HOLT

There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in th...
LESTER HOLT

They've worked their buns off, ... What wasn't noticed in all this was the preplanning we did kept a...
JIM HOLT

They've worked their buns off. What wasn't noticed in all this was the preplanning we did kept a lot...
JIM HOLT

They've beaten a bunch of those guys in the field and they both are straight-forward kind of players...
JIM HOLT

The sun came up Sunday and the rakes started flying. I drove all over town and that's all I saw was ...
JIM HOLT

The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all...
JIM HOLT

I remember when they signed Isaac back, I called and congratulated him. I told him it was going to b...
TORRY HOLT

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the res...
HOLT MCCALLANY

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT

I kinda stumbled into my first role.
SANDRINE HOLT

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised...
LESTER HOLT

It's definitely here to stay.
ALAN HOLT

We have to look at all the ideas that have been generated and see where there are common ideas, thin...
ALAN HOLT

That's the feeling we have to recapture. We have to get out of the gate early this season, and if we...
TORRY HOLT

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow...
LESTER HOLT

It really helps guys get out of a jam once in a while when you can pull off a play like that.
DAVE HOLT

We have to have relief from all these lawsuits because it's really hurting companies' bottom line, a...
DAVID HOLT

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' fac...
RON HOLT

I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t...
GEORGIA HOLT

I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.
SIMON HOLT

UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San ...
LESTER HOLT

There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and tha...
GEORGIA HOLT

I noticed when Marcus came back last year, he was hungry about everything. He was hungry about finis...
CORY HOLT

One of the greatest gifts in life is giving time and giving love. It helps me to stay grateful and h...
CLAIRE HOLT

We had the smoke in our kitchen under control by 5:10 this morning and guests were back in their roo...
CHARLES HOLT

It's overwhelming, ... It's an empty hole that you're always going to throw money into.
CHARLES HOLT

The fact that he is in pain guarantees that he will get some dental attention,
CHARLES HOLT

The other guys like Shaun (McDonald), and Kevin (Curtis), and Dane (Looker) are going to have to ste...
TORRY HOLT

It may be idealistic, ... but that's our plan.
RON HOLT

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am ...
LESTER HOLT

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our...
LESTER HOLT

This will be an 'edge-of-your-seat' Super Bowl. We may see the first Super Bowl overtime. The result...
DAVE HOLT

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of s...
JOHN HOLT

We had a couple of wins over some good teams in the tournament, and we played toe-to-toe with anothe...
DAVE HOLT

He threw aggressive the whole game. He got ahead with the strikes, and our infield played solid behi...
DAVE HOLT

Going into today I didn't know what to expect. With the rain, we had no games or practice. We made t...
DAVE HOLT

Last year the Seahawks failed to give [Shaun] Alexander the ball and he lost the rushing title. If t...
DAVE HOLT

They're familiar with our offensive line, and they're familiar with some of the schemes we like to d...
TORRY HOLT

They could establish forward stocking locations, and treat these products much the same as service p...
CHRIS HOLT

The other guys like Shaun (McDonald), and Kevin (Curtis), and Dane (Looker) are going to have to ste...
TORRY HOLT

I have talked to both the prosecutors and the defense. They do not have any objections to photograph...
BILL HOLT

Being first to high volume with 65nm process technology and the first with a working 45nm chip highl...
BILL HOLT

The collaborative efforts of Dai Nippon Printing Company and Intel will provide the opportunity to d...
BILL HOLT

When they signed him back, I called him and congratulated him. I told him that there was going to be...
TORRY HOLT

We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and b...
SIMON HOLT

What we need is to get six or eight months of receipts before we get some feel for whether we have a...
RON HOLT

Under Dick Cheney, this has been the most substantive vice presidency in history.
TERRY HOLT

So we are going to be wrung out severely for that little surprise,
CHARLES HOLT

We had a chance to win a road game; it's not that easy to do. You can't ever blame anything on one p...
DAVE HOLT

He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this wh...
MIKE HOLT

Device-makers use free logistics as a way to compete. The down side is that doctors, because they ar...
CHRIS HOLT

We believe it's from the mine tailings from the mining operations, because we haven't seen that leve...
JON HOLT

The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
GARY HOLT

Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims
SIMON HOLT

I was in a great situation here and wasn't about to give up a great program for something that I did...
CHRIS HOLT

I guess when I sign the contract it's a done deal. The verbal commitment has been made from me to th...
CHRIS HOLT

Companies cannot make a difference if they look at the problem as just sales rep-to-doctor, or parts...
CHRIS HOLT

But this forces reps to drive back and forth to the regional office to get the products they need, p...
CHRIS HOLT

The art is figuring out how to run the supply chain as efficiently as possible, while dealing with b...
CHRIS HOLT

Health care costs are spiraling out of control. They're pushing many companies toward bankruptcy. We...
CHRIS HOLT

He's just a clutch performer. He gets out there and throws strikes and stays within himself, doesn't...
CHRIS HOLT

Some good turns are big and some are small, but we believe they are all valuable to our community.
CHRIS HOLT

This is something we do every year since we built this building (middle school). We made this promis...
MIKE HOLT

We don't begrudge Mark from making a living, just not in law enforcement.
MIKE HOLT

I hope tonight meant a lot to him, to show him that we love him.
MIKE HOLT

We've noted that there are issues and we've been in communication with his family and their represen...
MIKE HOLT

I'm trying to get the word out about high gas prices, ... Honk 4 lower gas prices.
MIKE HOLT

This is a busy intersection, and it's right across the street from where I live.
MIKE HOLT

picking on one particular station.
MIKE HOLT

He rammed a unit and then fled on foot.
MIKE HOLT

We've been treating the site as if it were on the list. This is not going to affect our activities a...
JON HOLT

What it provides us is a working plan, a road map for moving ahead.
JON HOLT

We expect to have some kind of an agreement soon as to how to address a remedial investigation at th...
JON HOLT

We made clear to Mr. Morris and others what the materials were. We explained the testing and the sta...
JON HOLT

They'll be moving ahead. We're still planning on starting the excavation work in the spring.
JON HOLT

I reluctantly soldiered on to the raccoon. It actually would have tasted quite good had I not had th...
LESTER HOLT

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happ...
HOLT MCCALLANY

Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. ...
JOHN HOLT

Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who ar...
JOHN HOLT

Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meeting
by a professor of ele...
JOHN HOLT

For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The...
JOHN HOLT

This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon ...
JOHN HOLT

A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for &...
LESTER HOLT

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying...
JOHN HOLT

Adding the Games may heat up the economy to the point where it runs up against shortages in material...
DEREK HOLT

There's some debate about whether we're at the point where inflation starts to kick in.
DEREK HOLT

Look for renewed debate on whether rising producer prices will be passed through to consumers in the...
DEREK HOLT

Even with interest rates going up, housing markets will remain healthy going into 2006.
DEREK HOLT

Retail sales excluding autos and gas held up strongly, while industrial production advanced albeit a...
DEREK HOLT

These two reports continue to suggest that the US economy was on fairly solid ground going into the ...
DEREK HOLT

Our view is that the U.S. economy was on a solid footing by most indicators going into the shock. If...
DEREK HOLT

We need to knock them in the mouth and get some three-and-outs,
TORRY HOLT

I think what people are probably seeing are some similarities. I can understand why the expectations...
TORRY HOLT

Coach (Mike Martz) kind of challenged us this week to come out against Detroit and play well and we ...
TORRY HOLT

It goes to show the best team doesn't always win. Stats-wise, we showed we were a better team, but t...
TORRY HOLT

He was telling Marc, 'C'mon, throw it my way,' ... and I told him, 'We're going to throw the footbal...
TORRY HOLT

I have been saying all along that as long as our offensive line protects the quarterback and the def...
TORRY HOLT

He brings the power. He's a hard, tough back. He's like Eddie George with more speed and burst. He b...
TORRY HOLT

Only please, do be careful to bear in mind that Mordak’s a goblin. Enlightened, yes, but a goblin. He likes his employees loyal or lightly steamed on a bed of bruised rocket.

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Only please, do be careful to bear in mind that Mordak’s a goblin. Enlightened, yes, but a goblin. He likes his employees loyal or lightly steamed on a bed of bruised rocket.

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