Kathy Quotes

#1. Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Kathy Mattea

#2. All men are into bondage, 'specially if they're real assholes at work all day.

Kathy Lette

#3. We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

Kathy Freston

#4. Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

Kathy Acker

#5. One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

Kathy Reichs

#6. Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

Kathy Lette

#7. I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

Kathy Acker

#8. Dave and Kathy went shopping to buy all the stuff that their baby would need. It was like a great big celebration going on to welcome the new member of the family. Time

Heather Graham

#9. Tory a father isn't supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

Kathy Reichs

#10. I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

Kathy Reichs

#11. Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Kathy Reichs

#12. If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

Kathy Valentine

#13. Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Kathy Acker

#14. If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters.

Kathy Acker

#15. So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

Kathy Freston

#16. The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.

Kathy Freston

#17. I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits or renegades or something. You know, climbing mountains and hiking deserts and stuff.

Kathy B. Steele

#18. Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

Kathy Griffin

#19. I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend's house.

Kathy Bryson

#20. I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Kathy Ireland

#21. One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.

Kathy Calvin

#22. A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Kathy McClary

#23. And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

Kathy Bates

#24. It's not Life that begans at forty, it's Death
- Victoria

Kathy Lette

#25. Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.

Kathy McClary

#26. Jordan's gone, bros." Cole wiped crumbs from his greasy sweatshirt. "He bugged out right after you jokers gave him the third degree. Said CU wasn't for him." He snorted. "Y'all are, like, the leading cause of dropout around here.

Kathy Reichs

#27. Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.

J.J. Abrams

#28. and spiraled toward me.

Kathy Reichs

#29. Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

Kathy Freston

#30. As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

Kathy Reichs

#31. I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons.

Kathy-Ann Becker

#32. In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Kathy Acker

#33. Listen, I know everything you're saying is true. Ellie does need a good man. She needs someone steady. Someone who can offer her a life full of love and security.Unfortunately, she wants me.
- Mason

Kathy Love

#34. I just say that at any weight you should love your life.

Kathy Najimy

#35. My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Kathy Bates

#36. I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

Kathy Baker

#37. When I see you, I smile. When I touch you, I feel you. When I kiss you, I love you!

Kathy Griffin

#38. A lot of the stars were actually in the military and they were really strong characters.

Kathy Garver

#39. We as humans only learn through failure and if you fail along the way, take note of it then move on. This only gets easier as time goes on.

Kathy Stanton

#40. As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#41. Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

Kathy Griffin

#42. And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

Kathy Freston

#43. Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

Kathy Young

#44. Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Kathy Acker

#45. I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious

Kathy Acker

#46. There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

Kathy Whitworth

#47. Gender data is important. If girls don't have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

Kathy Calvin

#48. Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

Kathy Bryson

#49. That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

Kathy Griffin

#50. pretty much a done deal before she ever set foot at Whispering

Kathy Ivan

#51. To this day, the behavior of straight men is something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Have you ever met one? They're really weird. Sometimes they want to have sex without A Chorus Line playing in the background. Yuck. How is that even possible?

Kathy Griffin

#52. I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.

Kathy Griffin

#53. In 1967, only 4% of Americans approved of interracial marriage, yet the Supreme Court dismissed the desire of 96% of Americans who did not support it in order to preserve the rights of the minority.

Kathy Baldock

#54. Baravetto was unconscious when we found him," Hi said. "What'd you do to the guy?"
"Kicked him in the balls, then brained him with a rolling pin. Twice.

Kathy Reichs

#55. He just wants to be heard," Hank said.
That's all any of us want. To know that someone hears our pain.

Kathy Lyons

#56. The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Kathy Acker

#57. I simply am going to look you in the eye and say that if the United States hopes to remain a major player among nations, facing challenges such as poverty, inadequate education, and global market competition, we're going to need to draw deeply from our entire talent pool, not just half of it.

Kathy Cloninger

#58. I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

Kathy Griffin

#59. I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.

Kathy Calvin

#60. Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.

Kathy Reichs

#61. I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried
as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

Kathy Lette

#62. I am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

Kathy Acker

#63. You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

Kathy Freston

#64. [ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

Kathy Acker

#65. The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

Kanye West

#66. People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Kathy Lette

#67. If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

Kathy Ireland

#68. Hayley was being nice. And had made a successful metaphor.
Death was surely near.

Kathy Hepinstall

#69. If you don't change the road you're travelling on, you'll probably end up where you're going.'" Mohammed

Kathy Cuddihy

#70. Insomnia
I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to count some fluffy sheep
while o'er a fence they hop.
I try to think of pleasant dreams
of places really cool.
I don't know why I cannot sleep -
I slept just fine at school.

Kathy Kenney-Marshall

#71. It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

Sylvia Engdahl

#72. I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side." Three wide smiles. "Oh shut up.

Kathy Reichs

#73. Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

Kathy Lette

#74. I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

Kathy Reichs

#75. Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall ... Once again, only Ben's reflexes had saved him. "Please stop doing that!" Ben barked. "Please keep doing that!" Hi warbled.

Kathy Reichs

#76. Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real.

Kathy Bryson

#77. Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

Kathy Acker

#78. Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

Kathy Reichs

#79. It takes analytical skills worthy of a degree in civil engineering to understand when and where one is allowed to leave a car in Montreal.

Kathy Reichs

#80. If we close our eyes and look beyond our worst nightmare, we will find a loving God who promises HOPE and a new beginning!

Kathy Goodhew

#81. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Kathy Bates

#82. I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

Kathy Griffin

#83. An agenda is not a bad thing.

Kathy Ireland

#84. (My husband's tongue-in-cheek definition of positive is "being wrong at the top of your voice.") If

Kathy Ide

#85. Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.

Kathy Griffin

#86. A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!

Kathy Griffin

#87. It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!

Kathy Griffin

#88. Home is where the heartache is.

Kathy Lette

#89. For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began.

Kathy Reichs

#90. No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

Kathy Griffin

#91. I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks.

Chris Rock

#92. I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

Kathy Baker

#93. Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Karen Joy Fowler

#94. There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Kathy Whitworth

#95. Culture is that which falsifies.

Kathy Acker

#96. I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

Kathy Najimy

#97. He hesitated, looking at her. The old Ellie was gone. Replaced by a woman who was detached and cold.
He didn't know what to say, how to reach her. There was a wall around her, and he'd laid the foundation for her to build it.

Kathy Love

#98. The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence ... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

Kathy Change

#99. I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.

Kathy Griffin

#100. microwaves, and radio waves are too low-energy (and with

Kathy Wollard