Thomas Harris Quotes
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.Thomas Harris
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann -
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
Orhan Pamuk -
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
Dambisa Moyo -
As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
Daniel Everett -
Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
V. S. Pritchett -
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger -
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
Albert Einstein -
When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
Christopher Rouse -
I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'
Kevin Dillon
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It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
Dave Sim -
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha -
Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
Daniel H. Wilson -
You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.
Alan Bates -
I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.
Bob Uecker -
Man is a tool-making animal.
Benjamin Franklin
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There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot -
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt -
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity
Chico Mendes -
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
Thomas Harris