"Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood……" — Tom Holt
"Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of"
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20 Quotes by Tom Holt
Tom Holt has 20 quotes on this site.
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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
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It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a…
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There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
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At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
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Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible…
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I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year
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New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has…
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I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either
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The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet
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Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but…
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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted
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American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK,…
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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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