Philip Kerr Quotes

There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.

Philip Kerr

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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Problem
  • Professional

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• 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

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Bad
  • Weapons
  • Mission

• Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

  

  Daniel Silva
  • Together
  • Boy
  • September

• I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • College

• I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Play
  • Mystery
  • Novel

• The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People

• There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • People
  • Great
  • Music