Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Katharine Whitehorn

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• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

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• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  

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• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  

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• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

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• But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

  

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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

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• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

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• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

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• White America is in the minority.

  

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• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

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• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

  

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• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

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• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

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• I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

  

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• Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.

  

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• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

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• Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have found the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

  

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• If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

  

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• A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour.

  

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• I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

  

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• I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
  • Fool