Katharine Quotes

I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them. ~ Katharine McPhee

I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn. ~ Debi Mazar

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

A new beginning done right," she said out loud, because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true. "You hear that, karma?" She glanced upward through her slightly leaky sunroof into a dark sky, where storm clouds tumbled together like a dryer full of gray wool blankets. "This time, I'm gong to be strong." Like Katharine Hepburn. Like Ingrid Bergman ."So go torture someone else and leave me alone."
A bolt of lightning blinded her, followed by a boom of thunder that nearly had her jerking out of her skin. "Okay, so I meant pretty please leave me alone."
-Maddie ~ Jill Shalvis

O beautiful for spacious skies, ... O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine! ~ Katharine Lee Bates

At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her and they were all very cross. ~ Katharine Holabird

I've missed you, Eris. You and me, we kind of deserve each other, don't we? ~ Katharine McGee

With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls ... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory. ~ Katharine Sergeant Angell White

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears. ~ Katharine Tynan

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands. ~ Katharine McPhee

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ... ~ Katharine Tynan

He moved a half step closer. "What have ye got in that bonnie head o' yers, lass, that makes ye believe ye've got leave to make demands as ye do?"
Dreams. Hopes. The desperate wish for somebody to understand her. ~ Katharine Ashe

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that. ~ Katharine Isabelle

My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die?
and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him
but he was not in his perfect mind. ~ Katharine Whitcomb

I have an amazing relationship with food. ~ Katharine McPhee

And all the time Ralph was well aware that the bulk of Katharine was not represented in his dreams at all, so that when he met her he was bewildered by the fact that she had nothing to do with his dream of her. When, ~ Virginia Woolf

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school. ~ Katharine McPhee

No one ever cut Katharine Hepburn down to size. ~ William J. Mann

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ... ~ Katharine Whitehorn

What the president never accepted, or even clearly understood – as most people don't understand – is the autonomy editors have, and must have, to produce a good newspaper. I used to describe it as liberty, not license. ~ Katharine Graham

Damn you, Cam." Bedwyr leaned against the sideboard negligently. "I don't suppose you recall damning me when you were shedding your life's force in the sand. Really, Lucien, you are repeating yourself tiresomely." "You deserve every moment of damnation you are wished." "Probably, but that is hardly to the point."

-Luc & Cam ~ Katharine Ashe

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts. ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us. ~ Katharine Hayhoe

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. ~ Katharine Anthony

I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too. ~ Owen Wilson

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am? ~ Katharine Whitehorn

Tell no one your secrets, Daphne's mom always said, but make them think that you have. It creates the illusion of intimacy. ~ Katharine McGee

Is that all I am to have?" She followed him. "I suppose you consider an apology beneath you."
Rather, he was considering her beneath him, how good she'd felt there, and how he would like that again. He halted. "Madam, I offer my profoundest apology. It shan't happen again." As though his feet moved of their own will, he found himself stepping toward her. "Unless you wish it to."
She backed up. "Not in this life." But her eyes were wary.
Good. He did not wish to frighten her. But keeping her wary could work. And yet the most powerful need to be near her would not leave him. Of course it wouldn't. After two long years he wanted a woman. Among his brother's potential brides was not, however, the place to go searching for one. "That must be to my advantage, then," he said.
She screwed up her brow. "Must it?"
"You wield an impressive pitchfork."

-Ravenna & Vitor ~ Katharine Ashe

According to the federal government's own figures, the top 1 percent of U.S. wage earners were responsible for 68 percent of all federal tax receipts in 2011. Not just federal income tax, mind you, all federal taxes. ~ Mary Katharine Ham

I do love competence in a man. ~ Katharine Weber

Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ... ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

How would you respond, I wonder, if I cajoled with gentle words of encouragement, assuring you that all will be well in your absence from the party and that your health and welfare are of the utmost importance to us all?"
"I would probably doze off in the middle of your speech."

-Vitor & Ravenna ~ Katharine Ashe

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said.
"Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him. ~ Katharine Kerr

Sorry isn't a magic eraser that undoes whatever wrong thing you did! You can't just say sorry and expect everything to be the way it was, not when people have been hurt! ~ Katharine McGee

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren't endings, but steps on the road. ~ Katharine McGee

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job. ~ Katharine Weymouth

Her arm was outstretched, as though she were reaching for someone she loved, or maybe to ward off some unspoken danger, or maybe even in regret over something she had done. The girl had certainly made enough mistakes in her too-short lifetime. But she couldn't have known that they would all come crashing down around her tonight.
After all, no one goes to a party expecting to die. ~ Katharine McGee

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same
scandal. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people. ~ Katharine Hepburn

If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor. ~ Katharine Hepburn

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I truly believe that God provides. ~ Katharine McPhee

Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story. ~ Katharine Haake

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

If you don't flirt, you're probably dead inside. ~ Katharine Towne

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart. ~ Katharine McPhee

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky. ~ Katharine Hepburn

You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best. ~ Katharine McPhee

She knew this was reckless; it was dangerous, but like all dangerous things, it had a deep, thrilling undercurrent that was richer and better and more alive than anything safe. ~ Katharine McGee

It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing. ~ Katharine Hayhoe

The lack of work destroys people. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I cared for you when I believed you dead." Her voice quivered. "You were more interesting then. ~ Katharine Ashe

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear. ~ Katharine Hepburn

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. ~ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it? ~ Katharine Hepburn

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots. ~ Katharine Isabelle

I enjoy going to church. ~ Katharine McPhee

The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind. ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. ~ Katharine Hepburn

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin. ~ Katharine Hepburn

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

Most sailors weren't observant in that fashion. Pity she wasn't most sailors. Jinan Seton was a fine specimen of masculinity. ~ Katharine Ashe

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious? ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue. ~ Katharine Hayhoe

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? ~ Katharine Whitehorn

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater. ~ Katharine McPhee

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything ~ Katharine Hepburn

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. ~ Katharine Anthony

I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable. ~ Katharine Graham

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers. ~ Katharine McPhee

Rich girls never left something expensive on the ground, unless they'd been the one to toss it there. ~ Katharine McGee

My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I may leave my heart before the holy Sacrament. How I would miss Our Lord if He were to be away from me by His presence in the Blessed Sacrament! ~ Katharine Drexel

Her mind was jumbled, everything blurred together and confused; but from the tangled knot of her feelings she had extracted a single crucial thread ~ Katharine McGee

There was a downpour coming; Avery could feel it. The wind was already gaining strength, tearing out the last of her hairpins, whipping her dress close to her body. The air was heavy with the scent of rain. Avery's thoughts circled frantically in her mind, pressing so hard she thought she would burst.
A falcon that had been perched farther along the railing turned a beady eye on her, curious. Avery watched it unfurl its wings and take off. She felt a sudden kinship with the bird, the way it flew screaming into the sky like a wild thing. She wished she could follow it straight into the gathering storm. ~ Katharine McGee

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Writers got to pick the endings of their novels, but Beatrice wasn't living a story. She was living history, and history went on forever. ~ Katharine McGee

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older. ~ Katharine Tynan

I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do. ~ Katharine Hayhoe

When she finally lifted herself up, she was Princess Beatrice no longer. She had become Her Majesty Beatrice Regina, Queen of America, and long may she reign. ~ Katharine McGee

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Relationships never make sense from the outside; the only people qualified to weigh in on them are the people in them. ~ Katharine McGee

No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it. ~ Katharine O'Shea

I don't really dress up for Halloween. ~ Katharine McPhee

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's. ~ Katharine Hepburn

We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization. ~ Katharine Weymouth

If a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair. ~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould

People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme. ~ Katharine Hayhoe

Fate is a comfortable mistress, Wes, if you accept her demands." Fate, the mistress that four years ago had put him the hands of mercenaries who turned him over to the British to be tortured.
"Listen to the monk teaching me about mistresses." Wesley chuckled.

-Vitor & Wesley ~ Katharine Ashe

There were such sounds as are not heard in daylight - moon sounds and cloud sounds and sounds of dark wind; branches talked and other small voices answered in anxious undertones. ~ Katharine Newlin Burt

I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny. ~ Katharine McPhee

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more. ~ Katharine McPhee