Kay Ryan Quotes

A too closely watched flower blossoms the wrong color. Excess attention to the jonquil turns it gentian. Flowers need it tranquil to get their hues right. Some only open at midnight.

Kay Ryan

• Attention
• Flower
• Open
• Tranquil
• Blossoms

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• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Successful
  • Creation

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Party
  • Singing
  • Child

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Like
  • Laugh

• It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Hope
  • Forever

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• 'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • South

• Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each other, strangely precipitated by the fact that the United Nations and African Union has now planned peace talks.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Peace
  • United Nations
  • African Union

• Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Wake Up

• I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

  

  John Corbett
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Remember
  • Beautiful
  • Spiritual

• A too closely watched flower blossoms the wrong color. Excess attention to the jonquil turns it gentian. Flowers need it tranquil to get their hues right. Some only open at midnight.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Attention
  • Flower
  • Open