P.B. Kerr Quotes

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

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• If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Thought

• While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Star
  • Matter

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Art
  • Yourself

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Atheist
  • Unfair
  • Humanist

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Grandchildren
  • Through

• I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thought

• I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Insurance

• You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Learning

• Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• If you're not working, you might as well be dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle

• What was he doing, the great god Pan,Down in the reeds by the river?Spreading ruin and scattering ban,Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,And breaking the golden lilies afloatWith the dragon-fly on the river.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Great
  • God
  • Fly

• Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Sacrifice

• Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • Single
  • Morning
  • Design

• The good news is that you have everything you need to lift yourself off the couch to start kicking butt. You just have to decide that you're going to do it, not that you're too lazy to.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Good
  • Lazy

• Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

  

  John Schlesinger
  • Control

• If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women

• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Peace
  • Best
  • Garden

• And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

  

  P.B. Kerr