Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes
Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
Quotes to Explore
-
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
-
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
-
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
-
Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
-
President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
-
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
-
I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
-
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
-
If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
-
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
-
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
-
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
-
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
-
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
-
Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
-
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
-
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
-
The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
-
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
-
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...
-
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
-
They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
-
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
-
Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
