Christina Baker Kline Quotes
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
Quotes to Explore
-
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
-
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
-
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
-
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
-
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
-
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers
-
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
-
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
-
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
-
I never said most of the things I said.
-
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
-
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
-
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
-
I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
-
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
-
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
-
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
-
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
-
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
-
I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
-
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
-
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
