Peter James Quotes

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

Peter James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 22, 1948

Topics

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

MotivationalLifeExerciseDevoted

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.

Stanley A. McChrystal

OrganizationControlStrivingChess

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

Steven Sinofsky

PathSomeoneDisruptionHighCost

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins

IntelligenceBrainLittleToyElse

Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

Rod Lurie

WorldJust BecauseLivingMeanExist

Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.

Rumaan Alam

RareWhoEncounterSomeIntimidating

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

Christopher Darden

CrazyLawyerInterestingEasyYou

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

Brad Pitt

TryingFindWayKidOklahomaStill

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

Toby Stephens

JobMeGrowing UpGrowingOutUp

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that.

Richard Burr

HistoryPeopleKnowNorth Carolina

I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'

Marie Osmond

DayMindEatingChocolateFatBody

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

Mariella Frostrup

PositivePassionBestSoulMind

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