Tom Holt Quotations

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

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

I feel like we had a very good meeting and I really appreciated the folks that turned out to give us there thoughts, ... The NRCS will do all we can to make the 2006 EQIP a good program year.

The purpose of this meeting is to request participation and invite comments from a broad range of local agencies, organizations, businesses, and especially farmers and ranchers,

It is good to hear that the Expo is starting to take folks with livestock... I know a lot of the evacuees have friends in this area that are taking them and their livestock. I am sure there is a plan that the city has because we are a stopping place for the evacuees. It looks like we are going to get a large number of folks from the Houston area.

It is good to hear that the Expo is starting to take folks with livestock... ... I know a lot of the evacuees have friends in this area that are taking them and their livestock. I am sure there is a plan that the city has because we are a stopping place for the evacuees. It looks like we are going to get a large number of folks from the Houston area.

My wife and I own and operate RKE Equestrian Center here in Lufkin and we are full at this time,

We are not sure just how much money we are going to get for this program this year because of all the billions needed for the Katrina recovery,

Through stake holder meetings the public is given an opportunity to help local conservation leaders set program priorities. These meetings are open to the public.

The money was used to reforest woodland areas, plant grass on fields that had a soil erosion problem, and to do controlled burns in longleaf pine stands to improve habitat for wildlife, ... The funding for 2006 hasn't been finalized yet. Last year we received $110,000.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

That's a dying breed, ... Pharmacies are really struggling to find ways to make their business models work.

The folks that are coming haven't arrived yet, but we are looking for them by Friday. They are folks that have come up during hurricane threats many times. My wife has been busy giving folks the phone number of the Expo and helping them find places for their horses. So far we have found places for everybody.

The meeting wrapped up with the agreement of the group that all the conservation practices that we had last year be offered again for the 2006 program.

Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.