Kay Yow Quotes

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

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• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Popular

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • American
  • Know
  • Better

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • You
  • Will
  • Saying

• Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Afraid

• I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Today
  • Me
  • Wonder

• A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Best
  • Year
  • Lucky

• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Inspiration
  • Genius
  • Perspiration

• Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Wonder

• That cold January day - and so many people... I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Cold

• With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Forever

• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Good
  • House

• Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

  

  Agnes de Mille
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • Air

• The very fact that you thought of it means that, somewhere in your mind, it's believable to you. All you have to do is convince your audience that it's possible.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Mind

• Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Mind
  • Politeness

• I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Good

• I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

  

  Kay Yow
  • Mind
  • Spotlight
  • Platforms