Karen Hawkins Quotes

Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.

Karen Hawkins

• Differences
• Failing
• Branches
• Tables
• Hitting
• Chopping

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• As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Night
  • Science

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Son

• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Chance
  • Journalism
  • Upside

• Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Mean
  • Solutions
  • Idaho

• ...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Dream
  • Glasses

• Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Dogs
  • Cars
  • Parked

• The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Voice
  • First Time

• Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Last Supper

• Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Freedom
  • Stop
  • Realizing

• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Chinese
  • Firsts
  • Knives

• What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Men
  • Skins
  • Occupation

• You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.

  

  Kealan Patrick Burke
  • Dream
  • Broken
  • Pleasure

• For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Years
  • Lasts

• I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

  

  Cheryl Wheeler
  • Job
  • High School
  • Applaud

• While the women just want to have consequence-free sex anti-contraceptive argument is often trotted out by latter-day social conservatives, such a view is a cruel and misogynist oversimplification. A more realistic assessment of the struggle for effective contraception would be to see it as the struggle to achieve some level of control over the single most dangerous, resource-intensive, and biologically crucial activity in which human beings regularly engage.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Women
  • Consequence-free sex
  • Anti-contraceptive argument

• When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only bring Billy and Maddy together in terms of proximity and give them a common goal but that would also drive a wedge between them. And nothing fit the bill quite like the arrival of some children.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Nothing
  • Common
  • Started

• Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Differences
  • Failing
  • Branches