Missina Kara Quotes

Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand. ~ Kara Goucher

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

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

My soul always knew I was enough as I was created by God ~ Kara Keating

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

It is amazing, is it not, Darcy, how a violent storm can rise up out of calm, idle waters so unexpectedly? I am always surprised, but never caught off guard. We can be travelling through what we think are tranquil waters, believing everything is going exactly as planned, heading in the exact direction we want, when in the blink of an eye, everything around us is jostled, tossed around, and completely shaken up. When it has passed, we are not at all where we thought we would be when we first set out. ~ Kara Louise

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

The Danes had a great love of sea stories and the old sagas. Snorri provided the former from personal experience and Kara the latter from her vast store of such trivia. I half-thought some of the duke's men would volunteer to join the Undoreth and travel with the Vikings such was the level of worship on display ... ~ Mark Lawrence

He kisses my tears, and I laugh. This is a moment. I want to remember this moment. Every detail, every sense. It's one of those moments in life that makes everything else worth it. One of those moments that feels like an eternity of bliss in one tiny bite of time. It's one of those moments that falls from some heavenly plane to remind you that life can be wonderful. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone. ~ Kara DioGuardi

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

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. ~ Kara Walker

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

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

Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. ~ Kara Swisher

Was her whole life going to be like this now, avoiding certain songs or music that reminded her of her mistakes? Billie Holiday made her think of Eric Dalton; Iron & Wine was Jeremiah; and if things didn't work out with Kara, she'd never be able to listen to Bob Dylan again. By the time she reached her twenties, she'd be a huge, lumbering mass of musical baggage. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Her whole body tenses, heaves, tries to scream, and her eyes burn with tears of frustration and terror.
In the moonlit shadows of her bedroom, she hears a cat begin to purr.
Kara runs, shaking, out into the short corridor.
The cats are black and white, ginger and gray, fat and starved. They sit on tables, on chairs, on tatami mats. One sits so still beside a lamp that it looks carved from wood. She wants her father, wants to go into his room and wake him, but three of them sit, barring his door.
As one, they follow her with their eyes as Kara weaves through the living room.
As one, they hiss.
As one, they begin to follow, stalking her. ~ Thomas Randall

What exactly is a monster? ~ Kara Barbieri

You need a man, Kara. A man you can open up to. A man whose passion for life matches yours. A man who grabs your hair in big fistfuls and twists and pulls it when he's fucking you. A man willing to walk wire for you. ~ Pamela Clare

It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy. ~ Kara Thomas

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied. ~ Kara Walker

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

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

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.' ~ Kara Swisher

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

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

That's the problem with getting your heart wrapped up in things. The dumbest stuff starts to carry way too much significance. You think about things way too much. You imagine a hole being filled that rarely bothered you at all when it was empty. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up. ~ Kara DioGuardi

Kara didn't feel like a dial and go coke pusher but she was a supremely good hustler ~ Saira Viola

After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie. ~ Kara Goucher

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

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea. ~ Kara Swisher

The thing I've realized is that God always shows up. But a lot of the time, it's not in the way I want him to.
Kat McLeod ~ Kara Isaac

Frine gestured toward her. 'This new power of yours is dangerous, Kara.'
She shrugged.
'These are dangerous times. ~ S.M. Boyce

Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow. ~ Kara Goucher

Nobody ever asks for permission to ask you a question you want to hear. Nobody ever says, Can I ask you a question? Would you mind if I gave you a massage and warm brownies every day for a month? ~ Kara Lee Corthron

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

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality? ~ Kara Dalkey

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, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age. ~ Kara Swisher

If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal. ~ Kara Hayward

Anger makes us all stupid. ~ Kara Tippetts

If you don't feel foolish the first time you try something new, you probably aren't doing it right. ~ Kara Timmins