Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Katherine Cecil Thurston

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• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
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• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
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• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
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• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
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• What is sought can never produce the seeking.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Never
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• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
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• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Quality

• The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Spiritual

• In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Long
  • Universe

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Culture
  • Exercise
  • Judge

• Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • People
  • Eyes

• A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• Jennifer was great. She is fantastic. Really easy to work with, no drama, really down-to-earth, such a funny girl. Nothing but good things to say about her. She really was great to work with. And it always makes it easier when you’re working with people that you like and you enjoy being around.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We procrastinated in the U.S., it's true. And we are changing that.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • True

• For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • House
  • Free
  • Opinion

• Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Political

• The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

  

  Keith Ellison

• What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

  

  James Cameron
  • Death
  • Alien

• Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Voice
  • Talent

• It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Death
  • Mystery
  • Birth