Kathryn Lasky Quotes

Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

Kathryn Lasky

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• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Authority
  • Run
  • Behind

• I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Point
  • Open
  • Bills

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Black

• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• If Gen. Omar el Bashir's government gives me permission to pursue Kony beyond the red line, it will only take me 30 minutes to finish him and his fighters.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Red

• 'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Drug

• We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

  

  Selena
  • Time
  • Music
  • Food

• I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Family
  • Energy

• I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

• The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

• I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Sales

• Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Science

• The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Angry
  • Mood

• There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

  

  John Badham
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Attention

• In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Dreams
  • Dress
  • Princess

• ‘Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • People
  • Funny
  • Princess

• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Princess