Katharine Hepburn Quotes
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
-
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
-
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
-
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
-
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
-
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
-
My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
-
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
-
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
-
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
-
I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
-
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
-
If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
-
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
-
I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
-
I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
-
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
-
We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
-
Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.
-
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
-
I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
-
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
