Mary Karr Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
-
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
-
We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
-
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
-
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
-
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
-
I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
-
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
-
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
-
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
-
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
-
I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
-
There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
-
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
-
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
-
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
-
I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
-
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
-
In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.
-
'Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.'
-
Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
-
I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.
-
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
-
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
