Catherine Booth Quotes

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Catherine Booth

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• I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Simple
  • I Can
  • Simple Things

• I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Always
  • Sports
  • Interest

• I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • You
  • Living
  • Achievement

• My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just

• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Up
  • Best
  • Artist

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Stone

• I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Live
  • Think
  • Start

• I love the smell of a man's skin.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Man
  • Smell

• A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Style

• When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

  

  Adrian Mitchell
  • High
  • Hope
  • Sad

• When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Real

• I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

  

  Alan Parker
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Friends
  • Bad

• My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Random

• Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Success

• My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Time
  • Real
  • Job

• We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• I had a job writing in a weekly newspaper but after a while that got boring because I realized the people I was interviewing were far less interesting than me and I didn't see why I should be talking to them.

  

  Sananda Maitreya
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Newspaper

• A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

  

  Kim Ki-duk
  • Family
  • Education
  • Environment

• It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

  

  Andrew of Crete
  • Christ
  • Feet
  • Spread

• The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

  

  Catherine Booth
  • Water
  • Christianity
  • Rising