Top 100 Kathryn Quotes
#1. 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.
Kirsten Beyer
#2. The gentle Kathryn thumps the engagement ring in his face, thumps it as you'd thump a spider
Ben Fountain
#3. We are taught in life that love can heal wounds and rescind pain, but we soon learn that pain can often destroy the strongest of love." - Kathryn Perez
Kathryn Perez
#4. Kathryn Smith: 16 DPA/Landov: 21 Courtesy of Daniel Kottke: 56 Mark Richards: 71, 348 Ted Thai/Polaris: 102
Walter Isaacson
#5. I've made mistakes, been broken by evil, and wished fervently for my life to be taken from me. The past will never change. But my imperfect past brought me here, and it's a remarkable place to be. All I've suffered, all you have suffered, Kathryn, has not made us weak. It has made us wise.
Kirsten Beyer
#6. I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
Lena Headey
#8. In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film.
Alex Gibney
#9. They say monsters live under beds. They're wrong because our mind is where monsters truly reside. - Kathryn Perez
Kathryn Perez
#10. Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
Anita Shreve
#11. The muscle in Matthew's jaw contracted. First pirates, then this fop. Kathryn did not seem to be a woman of discriminating taste when it came to men.
Sandra Marton
#12. It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.
Sarah Gavron
#13. Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
Julia Stiles
#14. Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.
Kirsten Beyer
#15. All is as it was," she said softly to the young Q. Turning to Janeway, she added, "Humanity is a stubborn thing, Kathryn Janeway. It hopes, even when all hope is gone.
Kirsten Beyer
#16. But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.
Anita Shreve
#17. There was never a cataclysmic moment in which things might have been, however briefly, etched in relief against memory, against things to come - a moment which, by its sheer magnitude, defined her history and her future. Instead, Kathryn thinks, she has disintegrated slowly over a number of years.
Christina Baker Kline
#18. One cannot affect another without being affected themselves. - Kathryn Ferentchak
John Meyer
#20. I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
Patricia Riggen
#21. I would really love to sit with Kathryn Hepburn because I find her so interesting.
Cobie Smulders
#22. I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.
Amy Landecker
#23. Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." she waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth be told, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago." speaking meow? "I'm guessing calling you pretty kitty is out.
Gena Showalter
#24. Sometimes life will throw everything at you all at once. You can either catch it all or reach for the things that matter most. - Kathryn Perez
Kathryn Perez
#25. he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He'd already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.
Kirsten Beyer
#26. For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.
Diablo Cody
#27. The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
Lynda Obst
#28. I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.
Viola Davis
#29. Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother's love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.
Kirsten Beyer
#31. 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.
Kathryn Budig
#32. Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger
Kathryn Lasky
#33. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#36. 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.
Kathryn Lasky
#37. 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.
Kathryn Harrold
#38. 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.
Kathryn Erskine
#39. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#40. 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.
Kathryn Lasky
#41. 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.
Kathryn Perez
#42. I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks.
Kathryn Budig
#43. 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.
Kathryn Minshew
#44. 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.
Kathryn Lasky
#46. 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.
Kathryn Perez
#47. 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.
Kathryn Erskine
#48. Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
Kathryn Stockett
#50. 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.
Kathryn Harrison
#51. But is it that easy? Can she just decide not to be that person anymore - the one she hates? Can she really move on?
Kathryn Holmes
#52. I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.
Kathryn Stockett
#53. 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
Kathryn Perez
#54. Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.
Kathryn Stockett
#56. Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.
Kathryn Schulz
#57. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#58. 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.
Kathryn Harrison
#59. The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
Kathryn Schulz
#60. 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.
Kathryn Harrison
#62. Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.
Kathryn Schulz
#63. 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.
Kathryn Schulz
#64. People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.
Kathryn Budig
#65. There was the time I ate liverwurst because my sister told me it tasted like candy.
Kathryn R. Biel
#66. 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
Kathryn Lasky
#67. It's about finding your place at the table and knowing there will always be enough to fill your plate.
Kathryn Kennish
#68. 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.
Kathryn Schulz
#69. 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.
Kathryn Kennish
#70. A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.
Kathryn Stockett
#71. 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.
Kathryn Bigelow
#72. I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
Kathryn Bigelow
#73. 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.
Kathryn Hahn
#74. Caring about something can make you do things you shouldn't.
Kathryn Holmes
#77. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#78. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#79. 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.
Kathryn Harrison
#80. I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.
Kathryn Hahn
#81. 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.
Kathryn Minshew
#82. 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.
Kathryn Perez
#84. I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.
Kathryn Hahn
#85. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#86. I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
Kathryn Harrison
#87. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back. Not even in death.
Kathryn Perez
#88. 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.
Kathryn Erbe
#89. 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.
Kathryn Lasky
#91. She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.
Kathryn Stockett
#92. 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."
Kathryn Lasky
#93. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#94. 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.
Kathryn Pyne Addelson
#95. 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.
Kathryn Lasky
#96. If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.
Kathryn Prescott
#97. 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.
Kathryn Stockett
#99. We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.
Kathryn Schulz
#100. 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
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