Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson

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• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kings

• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Jokes
  • Comedian
  • Material

• Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Battle
  • Greatest

• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Men
  • Children
  • Home

• In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

  

  Joshua Waitzkin
  • America
  • Focus
  • Star

• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Night
  • Cool

• I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

  

  Everett Ruess
  • Thinking
  • Wilderness
  • Wander

• Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

  

  T.R. Reid

• We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Christ
  • Poor
  • Disguise

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts