Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.Tom Holt
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp -
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
Taylor Lautner
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson -
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul -
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams -
Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
Natasha Trethewey -
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
Vijay Kumar
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
Ada Lovelace -
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow -
I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
Haley Joel Osment -
The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.
Gavin O'Connor -
My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
Caity Lotz
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I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
What you remember saves you.
W. S. Merwin -
Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.
Colin Trevorrow -
When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.
David Gemmell -
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
Tom Holt