Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
Mahavira -
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
Landon Donovan -
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln
-
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon -
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
Zig Ziglar -
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
Olivia Wilde -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson -
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk
-
I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
Calvin Harris -
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz -
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
Valerie June -
I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Tavi Gevinson -
I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford
-
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Tester voted for President Obama's nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan but opposed President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch. That's not representing our Montana values.
Matt Rosendale -
My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
Ann Aguirre -
The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
Farnaz Fassihi -
In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.
Louis Susman -
War is an admission of failure
Tom Holt