A Quote by Tom Holt

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

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Tom Holt
British - Novelist
Born: September 13, 1961

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

Tom Holt

In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

Barbara Holland

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.

Edward Hirsch

I have managed to stay fit all thanks to my habits. I train regularly and have maintained great fitness habits.

Suniel Shetty

Girls, when you walk down the street, just stay nasty. Please stay nasty for me because that's how I freak out. So stay nasty and be nasty and have a beautiful time.

Ol' Dirty Bastard

I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.

William Jay Smith

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Evan Esar

It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.

John S. Hall

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

John Cooper Clarke

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Ellen Glasgow

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Mick Jagger

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.

Joe Buck

There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.

James Watkins

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

Ibn Warraq

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