Quotes About Karen

#1. I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

Donna Dixon

#2. I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

#3. [Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")

Amy Tan

#4. The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

Jill Lepore

#5. This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#6. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#7. I really hate that I need my glasses while using my laptop. What I hate even more is that I need those glasses to be full of vodka at all times.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#8. Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?

Robert De Niro

#9. She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.

Nancy Garden

#10. Karen had no problem standing up to people. She'd say 'no' before the question was even asked.

Cate Cameron

#11. I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.

Bryan Davis

#12. Rich tofu-eaters would move out to the country, buy a small farm that was going under anyway and then not know what to do with it. (See Green Acres and multiply by hundreds of thousands and both members Eva Gabor. But crossed with Karen Carpenter and take away all shreds of common sense.)

John Ringo

#13. DEDICATION To my computer: I couldn't have written this without you To the software developers responsible for spellcheck: You are my everyday heroes To Karen: I hope this makes you laugh and makes you proud. To my readers (all 3 of you): Thank you

Penny Reid

#14. Almost huffed at him, but I remembered Karen telling me a boy should kiss the girl on the lips first. I wanted it to happen like that, like in the movies I'd seen. With the way Kota was acting, it was as if he didn't want to do it. He was presenting his cheek as if this was as far as he was willing.

C.L.Stone

#15. I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.

Joshua Ferris

#16. These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong."
Juliet Hopkins, Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen

Juliet Hopkins

#17. the vet will be here by Sunday, and Karen Trendler agreed

Jodi Picoult

#18. Jesus, Karen, this bottle of Thousand Islands remembers where it was during the Kennedy assassination.

Douglas Coupland

#19. Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what a rare find she is! Finally, a book for us all to adore! Thank you Karen Fox for creating the most lovable hero romance has seen in a long, long time!

Maggie Shayne

#20. The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations. - Karen

Debbie Macomber

#21. My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

Michael Bond

#22. Karen led her guest into the kitchen where she'd laid the table with flowers and her prettiest stoneware in neat place settings amidst good coffee and cake smells, with a hope that now seemed transparent for its desire to impress with simplicity and goodness: a childlike tea party dream.

V.S. Kemanis

#23. I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#24. Karen made a face. "Oh, c'mon."
"I don't think so," I said.
"Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley," said Brian, laughing at me.
I could hardly stand him. "You've got that right," I said, and turned away.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#25. Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

Karen Essex

#26. When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double charge me, I refuse to write a love poem on their Yelp page.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#27. I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#28. Karen sighed. "I know. I could never fall for the easy guys either." She looked at Clare. "It's always the difficult ones that get under your skin, isn't it?

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#29. How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? This
is Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting.

Douglas Coupland

#30. Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her.

Jerzy Kosinski

#31. Her name was a joke, she said, like Karen Cutter's family nick-naming her Cookie, or poor Marie Antoinette Jones, whose parents had liked the sound of the name but who were a tad weak in French history.

Miriam N. Kotzin

#32. Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

Megan Mullally

#33. I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Jill Sobule

#34. about to make, but the idea had faded. Not for the first time that day, she wished the hall outside her door hadn't become the official gathering place for coworkers in search of gossip and idle chit chat. It wasn't like her to lose focus so easily. Karen couldn't afford to slow down,

Lynne M. Spreen

#35. All good things desired take time and patience. If you have the patience it will take time, if you have the time you will acquire patience. -Karen Rivello

Karen Rivello

#36. Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with the
floating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other friends back too. I'm sad they're gone ... sad and blue.

Nicholaus Patnaude

#37. Food?" Paige asks. "What about it?" Karen shrugs. "I just like food. I want to talk about it.

Rachel Schurig

#38. Feel free to go over there and kick them while they're down. When you're done, tell them to clean everything up and head straight to the stables. Aunt Karen will be overjoyed to have two slaves for the next three weeks.

Ilona Andrews

#39. When you're reaching the end of the semester and you just wanna die. Coffin Making 101 is literally killing me.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#40. Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.

Nathan Deal

#41. that sometimes it is more important to follow your heart than to do what others expect of you." Karen

Chad Thumann

#42. I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

Lara Stone

#43. Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.

Megan Mullally

#44. I've made up boyfriends too' Karen said, nodding her head slowly. 'The best man I ever dated was all in my head' 'Thank you!' I exclaimed.

Kristan Higgins

#45. Karen couldn't understand how these encounters had marked him, and she had always believed that a person without trauma was dangerous in some way, untested. Also bizarre: in all of his stories, Dan ended up succeeding.

Alexandra Kleeman

#46. I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here!
Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in Hunt the Moon

Karen Chance

#47. Everyday Graces: A Child's Book of Good Manners, written by Karen Santorum.[73]

James C. Dobson

#48. Karen makes her way back into the living room.

Colleen Hoover

#49. While Karen loved Simon for all his faults, Anna doesn't love Steve for his. She can't and never will. How can she, when Steve's worst fault leads to this?

Sarah Rayner

#50. Maybe they've been drinking and think it's funny. They're from Cutchogue." Karen seemed to believe the nearby village of Cutchogue was known for its drunken liars.

Christopher Bollen

#51. I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.

Neil Gaiman

#52. To Karen he was worse than a stranger: she knew with certainty that something weird lurked inside him.

Alexandra Kleeman

#53. Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

Jeanette Winterson

#54. Finally, Karen Gerdes is the gentle force that put me back together after the events of my life tore me apart, and the one that has kept me whole. Whenever I slip back into the world of shadows, she is the one who leads me back into the light.

Martha N. Beck

#55. I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built," she said. "Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses."
Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity

James Jones

#56. Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

Nancy Holmes

#57. It's not like I got caught masturbating, for chrissake; she doesn't know me, why the hell would she care if I'm superstitious? - Karen

S.D. Perry

#58. Or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter

Karen Cantwell

#59. A terrorist for Karen is someone who has a bomb but no aeroplane.
Ch. 4

John Le Carre

#60. Karen merely nodded a hello, feeling slightly apart despite the utter normalcy of the morning, feeling, for the first time, that she belonged to a secret, shameful society ruled by aberrant desire and behavior.

V.S. Kemanis

#61. [Karen:] You need to watch more TV.
[Rylie:] My dear mother would roll over in her grave.
[Karen:] Your mother lives in Palm Beach.
[Rylie:] Potato, potahto.

Jessica Lave

#62. Life is an adventure," Karen's mother used to tell her, "so be sure you experience it when it happens." It was one of Grace Tyler's favorites, one of several rules in her "Mom" arsenal, along with the ones about always having umbrellas and clean underwear and quarters for the pay phone.

Tom Savage

#63. Life takes twists and turns that lead us on an unplanned journey. With our own wishes tucked away in our pockets we button our spiritual coat and trudge through the storms of reality. We follow fate. Karen Kelly Boyce, "In the Midst of Wolves" Chapter 2

Karen Kelly Boyce

#64. At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen was here to make neither friends nor feminist stands. She was here to ruin Maisie's career!

Mads Sukalikar

#65. IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I - VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.

Tracy Letts

#66. The veterinarian looked at Buttons for a few seconds, and then he looked up at Karen. He cleared his throat. He said, Ma'am, I don't know how to tell you this, but - Buttons - Buttons isn't a dog.

Laura Kasischke

#67. Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.

Amber Tamblyn

#68. You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

Karen Walker

#69. You know Karen, everybody thinks serial killers are ignorant, but we are actually extremely intelligent.

Mary Burton King

#70. Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once upon a time I thought to dream of medicine. Now I dream of medicine by the sea.

Nicholaus Patnaude

#71. Not only had Navidson carried Karen out of that house, he had picked her up a hundred times over the course of eleven years and carried her fear, her torment, and her distance.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#72. Sky passed out on the road today," Karen says, changing the subject. "Some adorable man-boy carried her inside." I laugh.
"Guy, Mom. Please just say guy.

Colleen Hoover

#73. I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Lily Nicksay

#74. A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

Carlo Wolff

#75. If she had known who was a perfect match for Karen/Kelly, she wouldn't put cake on her plate, but instead add poison to her coffee.

Natasha A. Salnikova

#76. Unlike Leif and Karen, who could hardly bear to be in our mother's presence once she got sick, I couldn't bear to be away from her. Plus, I was needed.

Cheryl Strayed

#77. 'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

Henry Ian Cusick

#78. Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last.
Karen kingsbury # Leaving

Karen Kingsbury

#79. "Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

Tina Fey

#80. When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older.

Sophie Turner

#81. Karen was only five minutes late. She hugged Samantha, pecked

John Grisham

#82. It's super cloudy right now but I think I can see the northern lights from my room. Another observation: Every light is a strobe light, if you just blink fast enough, and drink enough vodka.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#83. They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

Eddie Campbell

#84. I don't know why the suggestion sounds more appealing coming out of his mouth than Karen's, but I nod.

Colleen Hoover

#85. [Karen:] Why would you want to be friends with him?
[Rylie:] He has good insight into the male psyche. Besides, he's fun to talk to.
[Karen:] He's fun to screw, too, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Jessica Lave

#86. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#87. Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be".

Jennifer Chiaverini

#88. So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that the monsters under the bed were real and would gut you.

Karen Chance

#89. You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

Karen Marie Moning

#90. I think you're beautiful and smart and talented and deserve a man that can feel with something besides his dick.

Karen Marie Moning

#91. There are no limits to starting over. That's why the sun rises every day. Unless you're running in circles and then the outcome never changes.

Karen White

#92. If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#93. The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.

Karen Blixen

#94. Life is all arrivals and departures.

Karen Joy Fowler

#95. We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.

Karen Salmansohn

#96. I bet things will turn out okay," I said, gripped by an urge to say some cheerful thing - it rose up from my throat like a cough. "I bet it will be fine.

Karen Thompson Walker

#97. There is a generation begging for you to be real ... and to be real now.

Karen Wheaton

#98. I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

Karen Hughes

#99. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that? - JZB

Karen Marie Moning

#100. Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.

Karen Chance