Tom Hollander Quotes
You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
Quotes to Explore
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.
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Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.
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You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
