Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes

I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

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• In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Acting
  • Find
  • Realistic

• I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Know
  • Me
  • Loved

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Great
  • Future
  • Past

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Things
  • Making

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Ride
  • Australia
  • Motorcycle

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  

  Kenko Yoshida
  • Men
  • Book
  • Alone

• My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

  

  John Travolta
  • Sleep
  • Suffering
  • Son

• Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Man
  • Way
  • Reason

• I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Life
  • Great
  • Trying