Philip Kerr Quotes
The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
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I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
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I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
