Kay Yow Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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

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

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Inspiration
  • Genius
  • Perspiration

• 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

• I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.

  

  Arthur Scargill
  • Believe

• Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Country
  • Serious

• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

  

  Albert Ellis

• My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Family
  • Mother
  • King

• After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Live
  • Real

• For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

  

  S. N. Goenka
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Deep

• Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. ... Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • People
  • Mind
  • Kind

• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Deeds

• And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Eternity

• I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Coffee

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

  

  Kay Yow
  • Mind
  • Spotlight
  • Platforms