Kate Winslet Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
-
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
-
I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
-
I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
-
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
-
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
-
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
-
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
-
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
-
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
-
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
-
I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
-
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
-
The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
-
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-
There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
-
Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
-
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
-
We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
-
Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
-
Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
