Kerry Greenwood Quotes

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Better
  • Bear

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Children
  • Man
  • Small

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Love
  • Change
  • Respect

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I'm a conservative, and you might not like that, but I am, and the fact of the matter is, this bill that they're talking about in Maryland is stupid.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Stupid

• I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• I was a street performer for two years.

  

  Bernie Mac

• Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Work
  • Music
  • Business

• A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Accustomed
  • Palate
  • In Time

• As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
  • House