Karbo Quotes

#1. I am just working on staying alive.

Frank Bruno

#2. All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

Karen Karbo

#3. ...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.

Karen Karbo

#4. Maybe I'm just unable to resist how handsome he is," she said. Sam went rigid.
"He's twelve years older than you."
"So?" He didn't think he was serious, did he?

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

Karen Karbo

#6. O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion.

Karen Karbo

#7. I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

Kevin Sessums

#8. Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

Karen Karbo

#9. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton

#10. Chanel and Boy "Arthur" Capel met sometime around 1905.

Karen Karbo

#11. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force ...

Betty Williams

#12. I think there's a temptation to try to think of people who don't vaccinate as a homogenous community, but I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not even sure that the word 'community' is totally accurate there, you know.

Eula Biss

#13. Art chooses its constraints.

Mason Cooley

#14. Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

Karen Karbo

#15. The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once - figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read - is the cause of writer's block.

Karen Karbo

#16. A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

Ron Paul

#17. Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

Karen Karbo

#18. There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit ...

Karen Karbo

#19. If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Alison Lurie

#20. Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. ...behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes.

Karen Karbo

#22. It's truly amazing what a good screw can do for your outlook, I thought.

Charlaine Harris

#23. The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever.

Karen Karbo

#24. Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world - Los Angeles in the '50s - they made perfect sense.

Wanda Coleman

#25. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Karen Karbo

#26. The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.

Karen Karbo

#27. And on the bad days I'm not even sure that I exist anymore. Today is a bad day.

Autumn Doughton

#28. From right now until forever, I'm going to show you what you are to me. I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to show you, because I've wasted too much time doing all the wrong things where you're concerned.

Kathryn Perez

#29. I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.

Tommy Shaw

#30. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.

Karen Karbo