Katherine Ryan Quotes

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Life
  • Done
  • Anticipation

• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Period

• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Doors

• If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Together
  • Man

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • World
  • Light
  • Best

• I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Lies

• Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Sewing

• At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Guy

• I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Family
  • Father

• I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Band
  • Name
  • Group

• When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Running
  • Day
  • Training

• I call this The Dictator Syndrome.  You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it.  But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Mind

• The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Society
  • Dreamer

• It's been an honor working with you, Mr. President.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Honor
  • President
  • Working

• The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • Lot
  • Guitars
  • Collect

• The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Real

• The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.

  

  Benjamin McKenzie
  • Interesting
  • Actors
  • Dynamics

• I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

  

  Katherine Ryan