Top 100 Katz Quotes
#1. So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy.
Bill Bryson
#2. I hung up again and looked at Katz. What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief.
Bill Bryson
#3. Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your current one out when it's done and forget it, start another, and keep on writing for joy. Words I now live by. Welwyn Wilton Katz
Welwyn Wilton Katz
#4. Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an attachment at an impressionable ago, before the contours of his personality were fully set.
Jonathan Franzen
#5. You have three chromosomes, Bryson. X, Y, and Fuckhead.
Katz
Bill Bryson
#7. Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.
Herb Boyd
#8. Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.
Ogden Nash
#9. Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
Daniel Boulud
#10. Different can be good. It makes you pay attention -Dr. Katz
Cynthia Lord
#11. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#12. Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.
Lilian Katz
#13. There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.
Jon Katz
#14. We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#15. It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business
Daniel Katz
#17. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.
Jackson Katz
#18. Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
Steven T. Katz
#19. Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
Jackson Katz
#20. Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers
strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#21. Self-care isn't something that we fit in when we can. It needs to be a priority in our lives, because when we take care of ourselves, we can do a much better job caring for those that we love. CHAPTER
Ali Katz
#22. Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.
Mabel Katz
#23. Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!
Mabel Katz
#24. When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
Jon Katz
#25. Life is life and fun is fun
and all is quiet when the goldfish dies.
Eric Andrews-Katz
#26. You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.
Alex Katz
#27. The holiday specifies that everyone recline during the meal. It is a symbolic gesture showing that Jews can eat with leisure because they have been freed from bondage.
Karl Katz
#28. Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.
Jon Katz
#29. When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
Jackson Katz
#30. If you believe people have no history
worth mentioning, it's easy to believe
they have no humanity worth defending
William Loren Katz
#31. A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
Jackson Katz
#32. Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.
Lilian Katz
#33. Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.
Jon Katz
#34. The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
Steven T. Katz
#35. I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
Alex Katz
#36. There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
Jon Katz
#37. In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
Jackson Katz
#38. Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience
Lilian Katz
#39. If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.
Alex Katz
#40. I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.
Jon Katz
#41. Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
Jackson Katz
#42. Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."
--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz
#43. We go through life trying to line up the chess pieces just right, but doing so is difficult. Something is always not quite to our liking. Health may not be perfect. Finances may not be perfect. Relationships may not be perfect.
Solomon Katz
#44. Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
Jackson Katz
#45. I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.
Mike Katz
#46. Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.
Sandor Katz
#47. My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.
Jon Katz
#48. Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.
Jon Katz
#49. Rose is undistractable, indefatigable, a problem solver.
Work is her essence, her animating spirit, and the core of her impact on me. Her dedication to it helps make my life possible, connects the two of us in this powerful way.
Jon Katz
#50. The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
#51. The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
Jackson Katz
#52. Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
Jackson Katz
#53. There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.
Jon Katz
#54. I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
Jon Katz
#56. For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
Bernard Katz
#57. In Freud's theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant, phallus-favoring, social organization of powers, bodies, and symbols.
Jonathan Ned Katz
#58. Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#59. Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.
Lilian Katz
#60. Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
Jackson Katz
#61. Asking an angry man to change his ways is like asking a blind man to try harder to see.
Evan L. Katz
#62. A man of quality is not threatened by a woman with tofu.
Elliot Katz
#63. God (Love) can heal anything. Your job is to give permission. It takes a lot
of trust.
Mabel Katz
#64. The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.
Thomas J. Katz
#65. Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
Jon Katz
#66. In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
Jackson Katz
#67. For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
Jackson Katz
#68. Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
Bernard Katz
#69. Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.
Jon Katz
#70. We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.
Lilian Katz
#71. Science is a particular way of thinking about things.
Lilian Katz
#72. Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
Jackson Katz
#73. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
Jackson Katz
#74. All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.
Lilian Katz
#75. Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
Jon Katz
#77. ... emotions are most often overwhelming when they are not your own
Debra Lynne Katz
#78. When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
Jon Katz
#79. Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.
Alex Katz
#80. Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.
Jon Katz
#81. Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.
Jon Katz
#82. Paint faster than you can think.
Alex Katz
#83. The relationship between a dog and a human is always complicated. The two know each other in a way nobody else quite understands, a connection shrouded in personal history, temperament, experience, instinct, and love.
Jon Katz
#84. Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
David L. Katz
#85. Being socialized female and spending my life "othered" by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I hope somebody loves me enough to watch me age ungracefully.
Harvey Katz
#86. When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
Jon Katz
#87. To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.
Sandor Katz
#88. During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
Jackson Katz
#89. In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
Jackson Katz
#90. Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that's how it is, we cannot.
Mabel Katz
#91. Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
Alex Katz
#92. In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.
Lilian Katz
#93. Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
Jackson Katz
#94. Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.
Jon Katz
#96. God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others.
Everybody has free choice.
Mabel Katz
#97. We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
Jackson Katz
#98. Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation
reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.
Lilian Katz
#99. Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
Jon Katz
#100. The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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