Kath Quotes

#1. Kath asleep (and snoring with her mouth open!) in the tack room.

Jane Ayres

#2. It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot ... " "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

Emma Thompson

#4. KATH: (Katherine) BRENT, daughter of Ed: Brent, dee'd., 300 acs. Northumberland Co., N.E. upon Quiough 421 Riv., S.E. upon land of Capt. Giles Brent. 9 Dec. 1662, p. 79, (554). (Capt. Gyles Brent, 4 May 1653, assigned to sd. Edm: Brent & by him given by will to sd. Kath.)

Nell Marion Nugent

#5. Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache

Clint Catalyst

#6. Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

Andre Dubus III

#7. Non numerantur sed ponderantur
(They are not counted but weighed)

Paul Hoffman

#8. But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

Terry Kath

#9. Collingswood frowned at the clouds, like she did not like what they wrote.

China Mieville

#10. Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

Terry Kath

#12. Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Dennis Gabor

#13. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

Marsha M. Linehan

#14. In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

Adrian Grenier

#15. Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

Terry Kath

#16. After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.

Terry Kath

#17. I walk to Starbucks for a quick caffeine fix when I hear a voice too familiar and annoying to be real. 'Tsk tsk pati ba naman dito sinusundan mo ako? Grabe a, are you stalking me?

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#18. I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

Terry Kath

#19. About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.

Terry Kath

#20. I just get all jacked up when we start cooking.

Terry Kath

#21. Don't worry, it's not loaded.

Terry Kath

#22. All shall be well, all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well. Julian of Norwich

Kath O'Sullivan

#23. I never really understood what a three-year itch meant because I never felt it before. Before Johnny, my relationships had a four-month expiration date.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#24. And yet, despite everything I just shared, I still couldn't admit to another person that I am lonely.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#25. If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.

Therese Anne Fowler

#26. When you work behind the ropes, you know the heartbreaking stories behind their smiles; you see the pins and nauseating amount of hair products that glaze their heads; and you see the wedges (even flats) under their eternally beaded gowns.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#27. It's our damage that makes us interesting.

Chris Weitz

#28. This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!

Terry Kath

#29. If I die of heatstroke, I want to be reincarnated as a beauty queen, I thought. Ma-experience ko man lang na sumakay ng pink na float at hindi maglakad habang nauusukan ng tambutso.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla