Katie Uhlaender Quotes
Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
-
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
-
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
-
The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
-
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
-
When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
-
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
-
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
-
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
-
You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
-
For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
-
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
-
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
-
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
-
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
-
General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
-
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
-
I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
-
It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.
-
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
-
Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.
-
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
-
I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.
-
Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
