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

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• 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

• 80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

  

  Alan Perlis

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

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • High

• We often discussed his notions on objective reality. I recall that during one walk Einstein suddenly stopped, turned to me and asked whether I really believed that the moon exists only when I look at it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Moon
  • Exist

• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Success
  • Band

• 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

• The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Book

• Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Live
  • Day

• Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Home

• My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Truth

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

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Lust
  • Slippery