Carolyn Hart Quotes

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

Carolyn Hart

• Powerful
• Makeup
• Rich
• Danger
• Journalism
• Stripes

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Country
  • Always
  • Honor

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • God
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging. But I still said to myself, 'If the Everleighs doesn't sell, I'm finished with writing forever.' I was going to get an office job.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • God
  • Writing
  • Job

• My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Wife
  • Honest
  • Meat

• I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

  

  J. Tillman
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Stop

• I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Fire

• Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Girl

• I write a thousand words a day.

  

  Lisa See
  • Words

• I'm a very social person, and I like being in different kinds of environments.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Different

• Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

  

  Pervez Musharraf
  • Peace
  • Violence
  • Tolerance

• Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Food
  • Frozen

• I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Soul

• I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Kind

• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Faith
  • Pain
  • Doubt

• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

  

  Charles Capps
  • Writing
  • Power
  • Fear

• All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.

  

  Carolyn Hart
  • Powerful
  • Makeup
  • Rich