Kate Klise Quotes
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
Quotes to Explore
-
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
-
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-
Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
-
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
-
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.
-
I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
-
Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
-
I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
-
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
-
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
-
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
-
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
-
I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
-
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
-
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
-
Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
-
Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
-
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
-
I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
-
I love living in New York.
-
Liverpool will always be my home.
-
I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
-
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
-
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
