Thomas Harris Quotes

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

Thomas Harris

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• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • High
  • Energy
  • Diet

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Alone
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Small
  • Control

• It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • High

• When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Food

• I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • World
  • Heart
  • Evil

• Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Life
  • America
  • Free

• The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

  

  Branford Marsalis

• Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  

  Bruce Kent
  • Power
  • Present
  • Organization

• I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • People
  • Good

• It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • History
  • Political

• Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Time
  • Book

• I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Heart
  • Book

• When I was attorney general, we had the strongest public integrity unit in the country.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Country
  • Integrity

• Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

  

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

• Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Lust
  • Slippery