John Thaw Quotes

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

John Thaw

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• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Powerful
  • Realize
  • Chips

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Help
  • Alone

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Path
  • Influence
  • Down

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Beginning

• I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Always
  • Act
  • Head

• Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Time
  • Money
  • Hope

• The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Direction

• I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I want to shape the TV screen canvas

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Canvas

• Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Doubt

• He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • May
  • High
  • Death

• If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wall

• With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Money
  • Economy
  • Inflation

• If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Music

• In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

  

  Ze'ev Chafets
  • Political
  • Genius
  • Fishing

• I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Actions
  • Arbitrator

• In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

  

  John Thaw