Kathleen Winsor Quotes

#1. Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

Virginia Henley

#2. Reflective listening is where you yell into a canyon and wait for the echo!

Dr Steven Bottomley

#3. The end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Kathleen Winsor

#4. Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?"
"Gentleman may still wear them, but I'm afraid the problem is that there aren't many left.

Camilla Isley

#5. There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Kathleen Winsor

#6. Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Kathleen Winsor

#7. Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

John Hodgman

#8. Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Kathleen Winsor

#9. You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Aimee Mullins

#10. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Kathleen Winsor

#11. I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits.

Monica Keena

#12. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Kathleen Winsor

#13. She had never seen anyone like him before in her life. The clothes he wore, the sound of his voice, the expression in his eys, all made her feel that she had had z moomentary glimpse into another world - and she longed passionately to see it again, if only for a brief while.

Kathleen Winsor

#14. There are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

Kathleen Winsor

#15. I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes.

Kathleen Winsor

#16. Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Kathleen Winsor

#17. Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Mark Zuckerberg

#18. What if I'll always be the person on the outside? The person who doesn't belong."
"You belong, Echo," he says against my temple. "Right here with me.

Katie McGarry

#19. Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

Kathleen Winsor

#20. Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

Kathleen Winsor

#21. If you had better sense you'd have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

Kathleen Winsor

#22. I eat mostly vegetables and fish.

Andrew Tan

#23. I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

Charles Grodin

#24. How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can't.

Jill Shalvis

#25. She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...

Kathleen Winsor

#26. The king appeared ... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Kathleen Winsor

#27. I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Kathleen Winsor

#28. War makes strangers bedfellows ...

Kathleen Winsor

#29. If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Kathleen Winsor

#31. Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.

Kathleen Winsor

#32. And I got used to the battles. Getting shot at was just part of the job. RPG round? Just another day at the office.

Chris Kyle

#33. It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Kathleen Winsor

#34. Success is often harder to take than failure ...

Kathleen Winsor

#35. Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's pimp. It was a position of no mean prestige, and of considerable activity.

Kathleen Winsor

#36. [Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

Kathleen Winsor

#37. I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

Kathleen Winsor

#38. We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof ...

Takayuki Yamaguchi

#39. There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

Kathleen Winsor

#40. Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

Kathleen Winsor

#41. It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

Kathleen Winsor