Mary Karr Quotes

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Mary Karr

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• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
  • Try

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Will
  • Strength

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Background

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Father
  • Know

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want. It's the new tolerant me!

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Gay

• I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Writing

• I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Past

• I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • World
  • Sex

• Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

  

  Mary Karr
  • People
  • Up
  • Control