Philip Kerr Quotes

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

Philip Kerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkDayReligionChurchHouseTalk

Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.

Jinder Mahal

LifePositiveAttitudeStartYou

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

John Dingell

GoodGoCommitteeHeadJustWould

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

John Cleveland

MeTearsWavesKnowRunWill

To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.

Aneel Bhusri

TimePerspectiveYouLookFastBig

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

Amy Klobuchar

DaughterMomUpTaughtPublicThen

There were a lot of stereotypes that I had to break of how people in the entertainment industry do business.

Troy Carter

BusinessPeopleStereotypesBreak

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Tom Stoppard

JourneyUpSomethingBeenSenses

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.

Rob Halford

WarmUpBackstageSing

If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.

Jason Moran

SpaceRiverYouPlayKnowRun

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ThinkRealityOwnThingsUsOur

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

Jon Postel

TimeJobSchoolResearchPerformance

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

Drew Barrymore

ResearchPersonVery

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