Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.

Katherine Anne Porter

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• Poetry
• Fate
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• Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Teen

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Like

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Good
  • New
  • Zealand

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.

  

  Alan Stern

• For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • People
  • War
  • Lie

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Life
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
  • People
  • True
  • Poetry