Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Katharine Whitehorn

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Political
  • Leadership

• On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Moment

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Change

• The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Reading
  • Growth

• Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.

  

  Cam
  • Work
  • Music
  • Fun

• At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Music
  • Age
  • Soul

• It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Like
  • Going

• I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • She
  • Thought

• I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Commitment
  • Left
  • Injustices

• Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardensGaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo.At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae,Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem.

  

  Ovid

• The Rogue Cyborg is doing serious Rogue Cyborg stuff. He’s crouched before a data terminal as though it were an ancient altar, and from the look on his face what he’s praying for is desperate and bloody revenge.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Serious
  • Revenge

• Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Husband

• If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Why
  • Boss

• Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • Different
  • City
  • Chess

• We wrote with Harry. It was a lot of fun. He's a real dude actually. We've no idea if those songs will make it yet, though. It's a long process. It's great to work with other people - it's good to flex the muscle.

  

  Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
  • Fun
  • Songs
  • Muscle

• I once had a gig in Gothenburg and went on the most unbelievable theme park ride, which was a rollercoaster built into a mountain that went through plants and tunnels. It was huge and a thrill to go on.

  

  Limahl
  • Mountain
  • Built
  • Huge

• Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

  

  Ken Kesey

• If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Eyes
  • Face
  • Future point

• Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn