Thomas Harris Quotes

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Thomas Harris

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• Age
• Wish
• Accepting
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• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Act
  • Legitimate
  • Lobbyists

• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Day
  • Last

• I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Sacrifice
  • Point

• Events are not a matter of chance.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Chance
  • Matter
  • Events

• The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Financial
  • Matter
  • Wishes

• People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Want
  • Culture

• I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Brand

• That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Want
  • I Can

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • War
  • Running
  • Failure

• Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Effort

• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,

  

  Kabir
  • Long
  • Die
  • Teacher

• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Moment

• I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dream

• No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that.

  

  A Boogie wit da Hoodie
  • Life
  • Music
  • Love

• If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Life
  • Age
  • Wish