Kara Quotes

I guess the beautiful disaster turned into a beautiful wedding."
"Miracles do happen," I said remembering the conversation she and I had what seemed like a lifetime ago. ~ Jamie McGuire

Hill sprints are good for everyone! ~ Kara Goucher

When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia. ~ Deborah Kara Unger

Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. ~ Kara Swisher

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected - that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma - that push and pull - is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make. ~ Kara Walker

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that. ~ Kara Walker

hard is often the vehicle Jesus uses to meet us, point us to that peace, and teach us grace. ~ Kara Tippetts

I guess some things are just meant to be broken. ~ Kara Isaac

That spot was taken," Kara sat up to look at them. Stylized, short, black hair with bangs. Piercing blue eyes. Proper posture. Lean. It was Oliver.

"I don't think a bag counts as a person," he smiled down at her. ~ Alexis Tiger

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do. ~ Kara Lindsay

There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists. ~ Kara Walker

The "keep quiet and look good" living is always easier than heart-baring, mistake-admitting, choosing-humility life offered in Jesus. ~ Kara Tippetts

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist - it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist. ~ Kara Walker

I like lots of bands, and I LOVE fewer, but the list is still lengthy. I rarely pick a "favorite" because I think that's for laypeople who don't understand the infinite possibilities of music. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health ~ Kara Goucher

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude. ~ Kara Swisher

It takes courage, humiliating courage, to step aside from your own sovereignty and imagined control and begin looking for the gift that comes unmerited. Yes, I'm talking about grace. Grace by my definition is the gift that comes unearned. In a world of unbelievably able bodies, where new diets are fashioned every day to keep my brand of story away, it is hard to realize you may be living in the middle of the best story ever told. That the story of breast cancer could possibly be a good story? A great story even? It would be easier to shake my fist at the test results and scream that this isn't the right story, but to receive - humbly receive - the story no one would ever want, and know there is goodness in the midst of its horror, is not something I could ever do in my own strength. I simply cannot. That receiving comes from the One who received His own suffering for a much greater purpose than my own. ~ Kara Tippetts

Don't try to rush progress. Remember
a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing. ~ Kara Goucher

She let me get away once, and the look on her face now says she'll never let it happen again. ~ Kara Thomas

Jenna reached over and held one of my hands, Kara held the other, and I felt like the universe was holding us all.
For that night, maybe just for that magic moment, it all seemed to make so much sense, like the thousand puzzle pieces of my life were all in place and I knew the How and Why of all things. It was one of those moments that I was sure would stay impressed on me forever because it was real and true. It was as tangible as the blanket beneath me. I felt lik I had touched something, something as big as the universe, and it had touched me back.
I didn't know that even a big moment like that could be snuffed out in a matter of days by packing to go home, by the wrong teacher on the wrong school schedule, or by my uncle getting his brains blown out at a traffic stop.
But all that just made Kara and Jenna brighter stars in my sky. I had no way of knowing that, in a matter of weeks, even those stars would be snuffed out. ~ Mary E. Pearson

If there was only one solution to every problem, the world would be insanely dull, don't you think, sweetheart? ~ Kara Barbieri

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day. ~ Kara Swisher

I find it astonishing that in 2020, a smile or a hug has become an act of revolution. ~ Kara D. Spain

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything. ~ Kara Hayward

Sometimes the outside is safer than the inside. ~ Kara Thomas

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything. ~ Kara Walker

She moved the gun to her breast, placing it over her heart-the treacherous thing the cause of all her troubles~ Kara ~ Marita A. Hansen

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great. ~ Kara Goucher

i often find myself falling for someone
who refuses to catch me,
and likewise upon waiting arms
i suddenly develop a fear of heights.

either i'm unlucky in love
or i'm obsessed with the theory
but not the practice. ~ Kara Petrovic

I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute. ~ Deborah Kara Unger

When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn't be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly. ~ Kara Martinelli

She's all sharp edges, you know that going in, but you keep catching your fingers on her corners and it's bleeding you dry. ~ Kara Allen

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. ~ Kara Goucher

I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times ... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits. ~ Kara DioGuardi

Unlike animals, we are able to produce emotional states through thinking," she says. "A zebra is only going to be horrendously stressed if a lion is chasing it, but my students can get themselves in the same state by worrying about their midterm." And, she points out, it's much easier for us to think ourselves into worry than into happiness. People ~ Kara Platoni

Greg was a supernice guy and a good tenant."
"I met him only once, but he seemed pretty cool," I said. "Of course, the neighbor across the street was convinced he was up to no good."
"Oh, my God, that racist bitch? I swear, I wanted to rent the place out to a black Jewish gay couple just to piss her off, but then I figured it wouldn't be fair to the black Jewish gay couple. ~ Diana Rowland

One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is. ~ Kara G. Durbin

I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress. ~ Kara Walker

In some way, the magazine helped validate a new kind of American manhood--the kind of guy who would court you with mix tapes, sported Converse Chuck Taylors and shaggy bedhead on his lanky frame, wept over the disappearing rain forest, and had Backlash on his bookshelf. ~ Kara Jesella

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there. ~ Deborah Kara Unger

Anger makes us all stupid. ~ Kara Tippetts

There are worse things in this world than monsters, and somehow, they always manage to find me. ~ Kara Thomas

What exactly is a monster? ~ Kara Barbieri

Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters. ~ Kara Tippetts

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists. ~ Kara DioGuardi

I almost let him die. I did. I'm not proud of that now. It was a mistake. But when all you can think of is revenge, you don't think straight. I haven't for a long time. I've plotted and manipulated and stolen to get what I want, and it's cost me everything. When I lost my mother, I lost a bit of myself to the hatred. It clouded my judgment. I couldn't think straight anymore, and I lost both my father and brother because of it. I lost the love of my life. I lost the respect of my fellow Bloods. I lost control over you. By using deception to get my revenge, I lost everything, Kara. I lost everything that ever used to matter to me. - Blood Gavin ~ S.M. Boyce

I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? ~ Kara Swisher

Sometimes, impossible just means you have to try harder. -Kara ~ S.M. Boyce

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. ~ Kara Walker

Wes [Anderson] is brilliant, kind, and just absolutely fantastic. He was really amazing in the way he can just take ideas, turn them into such beautiful stories, and then bring them to life with these amazing films the way he does. ~ Kara Hayward

I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory. ~ Kara DioGuardi

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping. ~ Kara DioGuardi

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. ~ Kara Swisher

Sometimes the hardest peace to find is the peace in saying good-bye and leaving the work of justice and reconciliation to Jesus. ~ Kara Tippetts

Bad dreams are better than no dreams...at least they tell you what you're afraid of knowing. ~ Kara Barbieri

I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

I never was good at staying away from boys who look really good in ties. ~ Kara Taylor

Yeah ... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that. ~ Kara DioGuardi

But we pretend we don't know, because it makes us feel important. ~ Kara Thomas

One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod. ~ Kara Swisher

I have no interest in looking at all of that shit written down. I would rather have a root canal. In 1705. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog. ~ Kara Swisher

This dude could read Pat the Bunnyand make it terrifying. ~ Diana Rowland

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly. ~ Kara Walker

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated. ~ Kara DioGuardi

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive. ~ Kara Swisher

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings. ~ Kara Swisher

I felt my weakness; I knew my smallness. Being raised under anger, the voice of a child is lost. ~ Kara Tippetts

Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable. ~ Kara Goucher

In the absence of grace, there is only right and wrong, black and white, and the endless unknowable gray of performance. ~ Kara Tippetts

Before he danced with his weapons, now he danced with me. ~ Kara Barbieri

Kara do you love Brad?'
All my heart.'
Then how can you let him leave next year?'
I guess love isn't enough sometimes. ~ Patrick Jones

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running. ~ Kara Goucher

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. ~ Kara Walker

Songwriters tell the truth. ~ Kara DioGuardi

The secrets I've kept from her are unforgivable. ~ Kara Thomas

his dad seemed to love Olly and Kara and his mom a little less than he did before. And the less he seemed to love them, the more they tried to become more lovable. ~ Nicola Yoon

America's eyes darted in Kara's direction. Good idea, Kara. The fact that you're a total bitch comes in handy sometimes. ~ Jamie McGuire

We train together to make each other great. ~ Kara Goucher

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with. ~ Kara Walker

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better. ~ Kara Swisher

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother. ~ Kara Swisher

As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend. ~ Kara Swisher

Most girls swoon when I talk to them. So quit ignoring me."
"So go talk to them," Kara slammed her locked shut and walked away. ~ Alexis Tiger

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary. ~ Kara Swisher

Seeing Tristan had never been the nightmare. My desire to be' normal' was - to become something I was never meant to be. Safe and complacent. To survive, but not to live.
'There's so much more than that. ~ Kara Swanson

Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process. ~ Kara Goucher

I always assumed that the doubt would destroy me. But know I wonder if it's the opposite of doubt that's the dangerous thing - if instead, it's the things we're so sure of that have the power to undo us. ~ Kara Thomas

I longed to not withhold love when it was inconvenient to give it. Those faces [of her children] helped motivate me to want to know Jesus well, and to live near Him and listen to His Spirit as I walked in faith with my family. ~ Kara Tippetts

People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that. ~ Kara Swisher

What type of food?" "What do you mean what type?" "I mean Mexican, Italian, French, American?" "I wasn't aware that American was a type of food," Kara said. "Sure it is. Hamburgers, fried chicken, hot dogs, apple pie; I don't know any food more American than that. ~ Brett Arquette

Cancer is a gift. There, I said it. I can say that cancer and suffering give the beautiful gift of perspective. It is the gift you never wanted, the gift wrapped in confusion and brokenness and heartbreak. It's the gift that strips all your other ideas of living from you completely. The beautiful, ugly raising to the surface of the importance of each and every moment. ~ Kara Tippetts

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that. ~ Kara DioGuardi

Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing. ~ Kara Goucher

You know gentrification is deep when a garage rock band made up of three white boys is called "Harlem". ~ Kara Lee Corthron

To be alive is to be broken. And to be broken is to stand in need of grace. Honesty keeps us in touch with our neediness and the truth that we are saved sinners. There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel ~ Kara Tippetts

It's dangerous to need someone that much. You're trying to save him and he's hoping you can. You two are a disaster." I smiled at the ceiling. "It doesn't matter what or why it is. When it's good, Kara ... it's beautiful. ~ Jamie McGuire

I almost could.
I could almost leave and never look back.
Like Mr. Bender, I could leave everything I was behind, including my name.
Leave because of Allys
and all the things she says I am.
Leave because of all the things I am afraid that I will never be again.
Leave, because maybe I'm not enough.
Leave because of Allys, Senator Harris, and half the world knows better than Father and Mother and maybe Ethan, too.
Leave.
Because the old Jenna was so absorbed in her own needs
that she said yes when she knows she should have said no,
and the shame of night
could be hidden in a new place behind a new name.
But friends are complicated.
There is the staying.
Staying because of Kara and Locke and all that they will never
be except trapped.
Staying because for them, time is running out and I am their
their last chance.
Staying for the old Jenna and all she owes Kara and Locke and maybe all the new Jenna owes them, too.
Staying because of ten percent and all I hope I might be.
Staying because of Mr. Bender's erased life and regrets.
Staying for connection.
Staying because two me
is enough to make one of me
worth nothing at all.
And staying because maybe Lily does love the new Jenna
as much as the old one, after all.
Because maybe, given time, people do change,
maybe laws change.
Maybe we all change. ~ Mary E. Pearson

It's 3:17 AM. I'm back. I'm awake and writing again. I just had a dream that I was lying in my bed and Kara walked into my room. She was wearing a bikini. I'm never going to sleep ever again. ~ Charlie Wood