Anthony Horowitz Quotes

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

Anthony Horowitz

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Interesting
  • Revolution

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • I Can
  • Socialism
  • Communism

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Situation
  • Stress
  • Survival

• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Best
  • Present
  • Husband

• So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Mistakes

• Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Communication
  • Values
  • Trade

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• I really like cable T.V.

  

  Sally Field
  • Like
  • Really
  • Cable

• I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Healthy
  • Conservative

• I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fear

• According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,' the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: 'Radiation exposure can damage living cells, causing death in some of them and modifying others.'

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Long
  • Death
  • Simple

• I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Boys
  • Gentleman

• Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Poetry
  • Connection
  • Solitude

• I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

  

  Marian Seldes

• I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

  

  Penelope Cruz

• One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Thinking
  • Old
  • Forgotten

• I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

  

  Anthony Horowitz