Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

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• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

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• Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

  

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• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

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• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

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• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

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• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

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• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

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• I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

  

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

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• The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

  

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• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

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• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

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• If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.

  

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• You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.

  

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• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

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• You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

  

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• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

  

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• The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

  

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• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.

  

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• Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Earth
  • Quality
  • Youth