Thomas Harris Quotes

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

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• I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Feel
  • Sister
  • Lucky

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Air
  • Successful

• When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • People
  • Want
  • Pressure

• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Scary

• Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Need
  • Reform
  • Yes

• The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • American
  • America
  • Security

• If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Like

• And learn the luxury of doing good.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good

• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

  

  Benicio Del Toro

• I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.

  

  Atticus Shaffer

• One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently.

  

  Philip Pullman

• In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Happy
  • Dark

• Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Opportunity
  • Regret
  • Emotion

• What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Business
  • Training

• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Special

• … It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Broken