Top 100 Kidder Quotes
#1. A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller
#3. The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.
Rushworth Kidder
#4. In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
Tracy Kidder
#5. I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.
Margot Kidder
#6. Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
Tracy Kidder
#8. Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
Margot Kidder
#9. What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
Tracy Kidder
#10. If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
Tracy Kidder
#11. I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?
Margot Kidder
#12. Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
Tracy Kidder
#13. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.
Tracy Kidder
#14. I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
Margot Kidder
#15. One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building
Tracy Kidder
#16. He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.
Tracy Kidder
#17. I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
Margot Kidder
#18. In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.
Tracy Kidder
#19. The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.
Tracy Kidder
#20. It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.
Tracy Kidder
#21. I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
Margot Kidder
#22. You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
#23. At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.
Tracy Kidder
#24. Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
Margot Kidder
#25. I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.
Tracy Kidder
#26. You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
Margot Kidder
#27. I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.
Tracy Kidder
#28. Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
Tracy Kidder
#29. I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
Tracy Kidder
#31. You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.
Margot Kidder
#32. Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
Margot Kidder
#33. I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
Tracy Kidder
#34. They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.
Margot Kidder
#35. The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.
Tracy Kidder
#36. I always want to write something better than the last book.
Tracy Kidder
#37. I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.
Tracy Kidder
#38. There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.
Margot Kidder
#39. Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.
Rushworth Kidder
#40. Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
Tracy Kidder
#42. You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
Tracy Kidder
#43. God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.
Margot Kidder
#44. The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
Margot Kidder
#45. I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
Tracy Kidder
#46. I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
Margot Kidder
#47. Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
Margot Kidder
#50. When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
Tracy Kidder
#51. I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
Margot Kidder
#52. I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.
Margot Kidder
#53. I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met ... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
Tracy Kidder
#54. As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break.
Tracy Kidder
#55. What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
Tracy Kidder
#56. When you burn out, you lose enthusiasm. I always loved computers. All of a sudden I just didn't care. It was, all of a sudden, a job.
Tracy Kidder
#57. Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.
Tracy Kidder
#58. People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
Tracy Kidder
#59. I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
Margot Kidder
#60. I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.
Margot Kidder
#61. The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
Margot Kidder
#62. I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
Tracy Kidder
#63. Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.
Tracy Kidder
#64. You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
Tracy Kidder
#65. The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.
Tracy Kidder
#66. I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
Tracy Kidder
#67. It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
Margot Kidder
#68. How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.
Tracy Kidder
#69. I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.
Margot Kidder
#70. My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
Margot Kidder
#71. I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.
Tracy Kidder
#72. Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
Tracy Kidder
#73. If I gun down my boss in the carpark after work then he won't be able to terrorise all his other employees and the greater good will have been served.
Rushworth M Kidder
#74. The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
Margot Kidder
#75. Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
Tracy Kidder
#76. We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
Margot Kidder
#78. On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.
Tracy Kidder
#79. So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.
Tracy Kidder
#80. I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.
Margot Kidder
#81. The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
Tracy Kidder
#82. In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.
Tracy Kidder
#83. They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.
Margot Kidder
#84. When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.
Tracy Kidder
#85. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
Tracy Kidder
#86. The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.
Margot Kidder
#87. Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
Tracy Kidder
#88. Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.
Tracy Kidder
#89. Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.
Margot Kidder
#90. I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.
Margot Kidder
#91. The really tough choices ... don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.
Rushworth Kidder
#92. Babylonian scientists used a counting system based on the number sixty, which is why minutes have sixty seconds.
David S. Kidder
#93. If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
Margot Kidder
#94. By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.
Tracy Kidder
#95. It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for manipulation; and for the ALU, adding is the mechanical equivalent of breathing. But
Tracy Kidder
#96. We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
Margot Kidder
#97. If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen.
Tracy Kidder
#98. In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased the histories of how things came to be as they were.
Tracy Kidder
#99. I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
Tracy Kidder
#100. god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb
Tracy Kidder
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