Katherine Ryan Quotes

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.

Katherine Ryan

• Life
• Real
• Simple
• Sexy
• Fierce

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Truck
  • Seeing

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Business
  • War

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Changed

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Write
  • Paris
  • Inspires

• I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Building
  • Prove
  • Labor

• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Problem
  • Find
  • Solution

• As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I like to control my own personal life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Control
  • Like

• The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Alone
  • Find
  • Irish

• The snow had begun in the gloaming,And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highwayWith a silence deep and white.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Deep
  • Silence
  • Snow

• Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple