“This business will never hold water.”
She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act IV (1703).
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“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.
My business is to tear them apart.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
Henri Fayol (1917) "Préface à Administration industrielle et générale" in: Dunod and Pinat eds. (1918) l’éveil de l’esprit public. p. 6
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Variant: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
UFC 178 post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAC34JzxS0 (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2014
“Fifty feet of mast lay in the heaving water, downed lines and shrouds holding it there.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 156
“Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.