Karen Marie Moning Quotes
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
-
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
-
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
-
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
-
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
-
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
-
For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
-
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
-
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
-
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
-
God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
-
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
-
I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
-
All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.
-
Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.
-
The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.
-
I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.
-
I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
-
I love Mexican food.
-
The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.
-
What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.
-
A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
-
People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'
-
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
