Philip Kerr Quotes

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

Philip Kerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 22, 1956

Topics

LivePeopleHumanityYouPageWay

I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.

Joel Grey

FatherTimeJobManChicagoSame

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

Sophia Bush

MorningPastSleepSaturdayBody

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

Sue Monk Kidd

SoulI AmIdentityEgoBelievePlay

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.

Tony Bennett

SingingWantProveTryWellSing

Not everybody is a party boy or was a party boy like I was.

Mike Cernovich

PartyBoyLikeEverybody

I hear from my Inuit and Yupik relatives up north that everything has changed. It's so hot; there is not enough winter. Animals are confused. Ice is melting.

Joy Harjo

WinterConfusedEnoughIceAnimals

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Jared Diamond

StartSecurityCostNational Security

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Jon Oringer

GoodImpossibleProblemsBetterEven

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

Bob Beauprez

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I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

Willie Geist

ThinkDonePresidentAlwaysOutUs

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

Pieter Zeeman

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John Cena's name is already universal enough. Kudos to him for that.

Shane Douglas

NameEnoughHimUniversalJohn

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