Top 100 Quotes About Kay
#1. It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#2. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#4. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.
Kay Harding
#5. It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If
Kay Redfield Jamison
#6. As they lay entwined together afterwards, they both were sure their future was blessed, and it would never have occurred to them that Henry and Eleanor had once believed that, too.
Sharon Kay Penman
#7. It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#8. A thing cannot be delivered enough times:
this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands.
To loop out and come back is good all alone.
It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.
Kay Ryan
#9. Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.
Mary Kay Andrews
#10. We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?
Sharon Kay Penman
#11. She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#12. The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay
#13. It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
Sharon Kay Penman
#14. I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.
Kay Hagan
#15. I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ...
Mary Kay Ash
#16. In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right to
Kay Ryan
#17. I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#18. I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#19. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#20. What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?
Kay WalkingStick
#21. The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
Jay Kay
#22. What the world thinks of me is none of my business.
Mary Kay Ash
#23. I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#24. At least it was never dull, my darling. And you will be remembered long after we've all turned to dust. But so will I.
Sharon Kay Penman
#25. My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?
Kay Robertson
#26. Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths.
Sharon Kay Penman
#27. By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#28. I am quite fussy about clothes.
Jay Kay
#29. The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#30. Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.
Sharon Kay Penman
#31. I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.
Kay Thompson
#32. I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.
Kay Boyle
#33. lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can't tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#34. The Self Is Not Portable
The self is not
portable. It
cannot be packed.
It comes sneaking
back to any place
from which it's
been extracted,
for it is nothing alone.
It is not an entity.
The ratio of self
to home: one part
in seventy.
Kay Ryan
#35. I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#36. The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.
Kay Arthur
#37. Because she is my sister and I am her protector. And since I failed in that duty in life, I will satisfy it in death.
Anna Kay Akana
#38. Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?
Peter Kay
#40. CROWN
Too much rain
loosens trees.
In the hills giant oaks
fall upon their knees.
You can touch parts
you have no right to
places only birds
should fly to.
Kay Ryan
#41. I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb.
Susan Kay
#42. What's your big hurry? It's only been four months.
Paula Kay
#43. I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.
Susan Kay
#44. After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.
Kay Hagan
#45. I tried to whip some feelings up but the inside of my chest was as hollow as an empty rubbish bin; totally, absolutely dried up, with my poor, tiny heart lying at the bottom like a crushed coke can.
Deborah Kay Davies
#46. Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents?
Kay Honeyman
#47. I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
Sharon Kay Penman
#49. You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
Mary Kay Ash
#50. Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#51. The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#52. How do we turn our heart to the Lord? One way is in going to the scripture to see him. "In the volume of the book it is written of me," Jesus said. In 1 John 3:2 we find that when we see him as he is, we are going to be like him, we're going to manifest him.
Kay Fairchild And Lisa Perdue
#53. Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So ... God gives the world a living epistle- you.
Kay Arthur
#54. Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
Sarah Kay
#55. Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;
Kay Redfield Jamison
#56. In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
Jay Kay
#57. Eleanor had followed Richard, marveling, as always, at the male inability to speak the language of the heart. "One day I hope to understand why men see sentiment as the ultimate enemy," she said dryly, "but I'll not be holding my breath until it happens.
Sharon Kay Penman
#58. In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#59. Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.
Mary Kay Ash
#60. I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.
Sharon Kay Penman
#61. It's interesting, isn't it, to watch this character attempting to reconstruct herself, quite literally, in the midst of this chaos?
Liz Kay
#62. It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#63. A sky still fits the ignition. There just isn't anything left to drive.
Sarah Kay
#64. I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.
Phil Robertson
#65. I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.
Jay Kay
#66. One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#67. His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#68. Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.
Jackie Kay
#69. I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.
Kay Thompson
#70. Patient sees [lithium] medication as a promise of a cure, and a means of suicide if it doesn't work. She fears that by taking it she will risk her last resort
Kay Redfield Jamison
#71. As wretched as she was, she wanted Harry to be miserable, too. And yet, she was aware of an underlying sense of sadness. Theirs may have been the first war in which there were no winners, only losers.
Sharon Kay Penman
#72. The tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier.
Kay Nolte Smith
#73. Old women with mobile phones look wrong.
Peter Kay
#74. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
#75. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.
Sarah Kay
#76. When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
Sharon Kay Penman
#77. To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.
Robbie Kay
#78. I write to get ideas out of my head
Bobbi Kay
#79. But what did one own if life, if love, could be taken away to darkness? Was it all not just ... a loan, a leasehold, transitory as candles?
Guy Gavriel Kay
#80. Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks.
Sharon Kay Penman
#81. No one will ever hurt you again, Travis. I promise you that.
Candi Kay
#82. Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#83. it wasn't until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.
Sanjida Kay
#84. A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It's messy, like a beloved, balky child.
Kay Kenyon
#85. It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.
Peter Kay
#86. Karina and Tho-orn, sitting in a tree-ee. Kay-eye-ess-ess-eye-en-gee.
John Flanagan
#87. Oh, fuck my life. I'm in love with this moron.
Kay Simone
#88. He made me use my mad voice, Laxmi,
Kay Simone
#89. I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
Jay Kay
#90. You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Mary Kay Ash
#91. Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on.
Low Kay Hwa
#93. Everyone wears a sign that says Make me feel important
Mary Kay Ash
#94. Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#95. All you have control over is this moment. Chase it.
Anna Kay Akana
#96. A feeble orange light was flickering in the allotments, low down near the ground. Laura looked hopefully towards it. It was a huge pumpkin, its flesh brick-red, its mouth cut into a crude gash, candle- flame dancing through slits for eyes. There was no sign of Autumn.
Sanjida Kay
#97. The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#98. I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#99. Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#100. When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.
Kay Arthur
