Catherine Booth Quotes

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

Catherine Booth

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• Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Process

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

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Simple
  • I Can
  • Simple Things

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• 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

• I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Food

• I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Children
  • Laughing
  • Prince

• To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • People
  • Mind
  • Water

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Time
  • Different
  • Family

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

  

  Catherine Booth
  • Water
  • Christianity
  • Rising