Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Karen Thompson Walker

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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Back

• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Time
  • Book
  • Green

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dog

• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Day

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Fall

• I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Think
  • Couple

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• My husband's a little younger than me. When I first started dating him, I just fell mad for him. I made a deal with myself: I was like, 'I'm not gonna get weird about what the future might be. I'm just going to be in every moment I can and enjoy us to the fullest.' I told him that, too.

  

  Joelle Carter
  • Future
  • Weird
  • Husband

• I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hurt

• While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

  

  James Luceno
  • Book
  • Single

• Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Strong
  • You
  • Foundation

• I am so stressed that my dentist told me I am grinding my teeth due to stress. So, every evening, I get shooting pain from my jaw to my head.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Pain
  • Stress

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing