Kathryn Quotes

#1. I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#2. There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words. - Author: Kathryn Budig

#3. Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#4. But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#5. The small words hurt the most." - Kris Harte - Author: Kathryn Perez

#6. Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#7. Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#8. One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do. - Author: Kathryn Harrold

#9. I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens. - Author: Kathryn Erskine

#10. I think about how no one in the car would come out and say it. We all know about these laws, we live here, but we don't talk about them. This is the first time I've ever seen them written down. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#11. She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#12. Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. Remember that. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#13. I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks. - Author: Kathryn Budig

#14. You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward. - Author: Kathryn Minshew

#15. I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#16. What do I want to do with my life? - Author: Kathryn Minshew

#17. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#18. I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it. - Author: Kathryn Erskine

#19. Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#20. I have impossible standards. - Author: Kathryn Hahn

#21. I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#22. But is it that easy? Can she just decide not to be that person anymore - the one she hates? Can she really move on? - Author: Kathryn Holmes

#23. I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#24. Think the bigger picture here is that you can't underestimate the pain in a person, because, in all honesty, everyone is struggling with something. Some people are just better at hiding it than others. But - Author: Kathryn Perez

#25. Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#26. kids in my lifetime. I know how - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#27. Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#28. I feel like I'm selling something nobody want to buy. Something big and stinky, like Kiki Brown and her lemon smell-good polish. But what really makes me and Kiki the same is, I'm proud a what I'm selling. I can't help it. We telling stories that need to be told. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#29. When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#30. The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#31. I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#32. I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#33. Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#34. We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#35. People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally. - Author: Kathryn Budig

#36. There was the time I ate liverwurst because my sister told me it tasted like candy. - Author: Kathryn R. Biel

#37. Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#38. It's about finding your place at the table and knowing there will always be enough to fill your plate. - Author: Kathryn Kennish

#39. The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism - an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#40. You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it. - Author: Kathryn Kennish

#41. A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#42. I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground. - Author: Kathryn Bigelow

#43. I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not. - Author: Kathryn Bigelow

#44. Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character. - Author: Kathryn Hahn

#45. Caring about something can make you do things you shouldn't. - Author: Kathryn Holmes

#46. It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#47. if you don't have hope, you may as well croak!! - Author: Kathryn O'Dell

#48. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#49. Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#50. It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#51. I've never been with an uncircumcised guy. - Author: Kathryn Hahn

#52. Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed. - Author: Kathryn Minshew

#53. I belong to you, Jess. My heart has belonged to you since I scooped you up off the ground over six years ago. That has never changed. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#54. Rich folk don't try so hard - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#55. I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people. - Author: Kathryn Hahn

#56. That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#57. I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#58. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back. Not even in death. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#59. I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot of it is trying to shut that out and just do your own thing. - Author: Kathryn Erbe

#60. A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#61. Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#62. She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#63. They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly." - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#64. Babies like fat. Like to bury they face up in you armpit and go to sleep. They like big fat legs too. That I know. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#65. To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action. - Author: Kathryn Pyne Addelson

#66. It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#67. If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer. - Author: Kathryn Prescott

#68. Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not say a word. Just hold they breath and wait for it to pass, like gas. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#69. I'm perfect. We're all perfect. - Author: Kathryn Hahn

#70. We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#71. 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. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#72. My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#73. It's a given that we'll have sex. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't feel bad about it. Guys want it, and if you don't give it to them, they don't want you. I want him to want me, so sex is necessary. I just want to be wanted. Loved. After - Author: Kathryn Perez

#74. There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it. - Author: Lasky Kathryn

#75. Surely, then, this was a situation that merited the high-minded if somewhat sneering riposte of John Maynard Keynes: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#76. Mississippi and the world is two different places,' the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain't it the truth. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#77. 'Yosemite' opened doors for me in the New York theater community in amazing ways. There's a whole world of fearless young theater makers here who put shows together on a shoestring budget and with gigantic hearts. - Author: Kathryn Erbe

#78. The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that. - Author: Kathryn Scott

#79. If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences not the outcomes. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#80. We ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#81. A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need. - Author: Kathryn Hansen

#82. when i said the word / i felt the word - Author: Kathryn L. Pringle

#83. I'm not a mirror. And I don't break like glass. - Author: Kathryn Purdie

#84. I tucked this away, afraid to admit how good it was to hear it. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#85. She kind a laugh and it hurts my heart. Because everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#86. I wonder what's worse-the invisible scars they leave or the visible scars I inflict upon myself? - Author: Kathryn Perez

#87. it is ultimately wrongness, not rightness, that can teach us who we are. - Author: Kathryn Schulz

#88. You kind, you smart, you important. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#89. No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big! - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#90. Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice. - Author: Kathryn Budig

#91. are evil, evil beings! - Author: Kathryn Perez

#92. God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels - Author: Kathryn Kuhlman

#93. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. - Author: Colette

#94. The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky. - Author: Kathryn Lasky

#95. I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point. - Author: Kathryn Bigelow

#96. Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been.
What she would now be was once again an open question. - Author: Kirsten Beyer

#97. There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration - without envy. - Author: Kathryn Budig

#98. It's important to remember that there are many different types of people, styles of teaching and that we won't agree with all of them. - Author: Kathryn Budig

#99. Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you. - Author: Kathryn Littlewood

#100. I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole. - Author: Kathryn Stockett