Kate Alcott Quotes

#1. Someone that immediately touchy was probably a servant. "How did you end up on the Titanic?" Pinky asked. She tried not to make her voice hurried, but she couldn't waste time if she was going to get more interviews before Smith and his crowd caught her.

Kate Alcott

#2. And it's not red, it's auburn, and I'm not feisty or tempestuous or any of the other things red hair is supposed to signify. Anyways, as I said, it's auburn.

Kate Alcott

#3. It looks beautiful from out here, but nothing glitters quite as much when you get close up.

Kate Alcott

#4. The day was beautiful, that first day in September, the kind of perfect day that made life something to savor, when hot dogs really were delicious, ice cream was served, and egos were forgotten.

Kate Alcott

#5. What did it clarify for you?" Pinky asked.
Mrs. Brown laughed. "Told me to keep doing and saying what I dam well please, and not be bamboozled by anyone. Life is too short - no mulling things over for a dozen years or so. What about you?"
"I wasn't on the ship

Kate Alcott

#6. Trouble? Everybody gets into trouble in America
That's what it's about.

Kate Alcott

#7. If you wait for everything to be just right in your life, you'll never get any happiness. You have to fight for it. And the minute you start fighting for something, you've won. The end doesn't matter.

Kate Alcott

#8. I've told you to look for opportunity, dear Tess. Keep your head up, not down. Don't settle for safety. Push forward-you are not foolish to try.

Kate Alcott

#9. She could allow herself to think of Jim, too. To remember the energy and the excitement of life bursting from him, surrounding her, making her laugh and dream and think-- that's what he represented. Not security just hope.

Kate Alcott

#10. Movies teach us how to do that,' Carole had confided. 'Create a set, sprinkle a touch of stardust. Who gives a shit if it's real? Just make it good enough to believe.

Kate Alcott

#11. Creative people live in mortal fear of tossing their seed on barren ground.

Kate Alcott

#12. Well, well. We tend to speak our minds, we girls from Fort Wayne.

Kate Alcott

#13. Life is an act - most of it, anyway. Get out there today and pretend you're in charge, for goodness' sake. Do you hear me? Lift up your head and pretend." A flicker of a smile passed over her face. "It's the secret to everything.

Kate Alcott

#14. You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so?

Kate Alcott

#15. Most of us start from nothing, with plenty of rejection. I remind myself of that whenever I get to feeling too important.

Kate Alcott

#16. If all the lifeboats were on the upper deck, then mostly first-class passengers survived?

Kate Alcott

#17. Children should have some warning, some way of knowing it was dangerous to look out at the world with unguarded pleasure. But who would want to tell them, to deprive them of those few moments of blissful ignorance that would have to last a lifetime?

Kate Alcott

#18. I like my life now," she said. "I don't need it to change."
"But it is changing," Benjamin Stanhope said, "None of us can hold things where we want them to be. It is all slipping and changing, Alice.

Kate Alcott

#19. My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don't wait for someone else to do it.

Kate Alcott

#20. He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.

Kate Alcott

#21. None of us is all that certain. But we have to pretend to be.

Kate Alcott