Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

Catherine Keener

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• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
  • Figures

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Believe
  • Bottom
  • Stuck

• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Blind
  • Figures
  • Hearing

• When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Vision
  • Audience
  • Relax

• I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

  

  Len Wein
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Bottom

• If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • College
  • Football
  • Golf

• The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mountain
  • Bottom
  • Top

• A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

  

  David Reuben
  • Long
  • Together
  • Rock

• I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Guy
  • Lasts
  • Jokes

• Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Art
  • Figures
  • Stones

• If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Facts
  • Figures
  • False

• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Skins
  • Bottom
  • Western

• One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Sea
  • Bottom

• Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Figures
  • Russia

• I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Figures

• Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Bottom
  • Attempt

• The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].

  

  Daniel Negreanu
  • Thinking
  • Player
  • Seems

• If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Results
  • Activity
  • Committed

• Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Opportunity
  • Doors
  • Indifferent

• I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Figures
  • Bottom
  • Driveway