Katharine Ross Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to do the splits onstage.
-
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
-
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
-
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
-
I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
-
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
-
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
-
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
-
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
-
I'm not a babysitter.
-
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
-
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
-
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
-
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
-
I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
-
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
-
I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
-
In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
-
It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
-
I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
-
No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were only 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.
-
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
-
Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.
