Katherine Ryan Quotes

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

Katherine Ryan

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• Any reaction is better than none.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Better
  • Reaction
  • Than

• He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Kindness
  • Paradise

• My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Tomorrow

• Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Money
  • Kids
  • You

• I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Age
  • Dying

• These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

  

  Eminem
  • Permanent
  • Mixture
  • Lyrical

• Faith, by definition, is a risk.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Faith
  • Risk

• Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Long
  • Wish
  • Hero

• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Machine
  • Excessive
  • Rotations

• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Character
  • Mean

• I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

  

  Aaron Rose
  • Creative
  • Writer
  • Interview

• I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Shopping

• I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Film
  • Information
  • Tools

• I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

  

  Katherine Ryan