Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes

Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 7, 1941

Topics

RelationshipParentsMeSayWant

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

Jim Gaffigan

ParentingPersonalityWifePainYou

I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

Jimmy Smits

MyselfDoingSeeTraditionalSitcom

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end.

Jenny Han

AgeHopeBookThinkEndHopeless

Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.

John Delaney

WantBuyOwnLowInterestAssets

I find that all my best ideas come to me in my sleep.

Megan McCafferty

BestSleepMeIdeasFindCome

No state should have to endure the threat of terrorists entering our borders.

Matt Mead

EndureBordersThreatStateOur

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

GoodMindMeasurePersonTrueHim

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Michael Bolton

ListeningControlVoiceThinking

I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.

Amanda Holden

SeaTimeMoneyBeachNightFriends

I remember starting working on the concept and the script for 'Pacific Rim' with a very, very conscious decision to say, 'I don't want any of these big sequences to take place in America,' because I feel like that's become so regular to the disaster genre, and then it sort of devolves into landmark stomping.

Travis Beacham

DecisionFeelAmericaRememberPlace

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

Mohammad bin Salman

PeopleDeserveNeedAverageWho

I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

Jonathan Ive

WorkThinkCareSpeechYouWay

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