Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them.

Katharine Hepburn

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• I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Lazy
  • Easier
  • Fast

• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
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• In my opinion, it has never been proven that food even has calories. When I bite into a hamburger, I see pickle and ketchup and bun and meat, but if there's a calorie in there, it must be hidden.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Food
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• I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Job

• There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

  

  David Newman
  • Family

• Falling in love in high school and falling out of love - it's very digital. I've had breakups where they've called me to tell me we were done, and I've gotten a lot of text messages from an old girlfriend letting me know how she felt about me after we had ended everything.

  

  Khalid
  • School
  • Done
  • She

• I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • People
  • Music
  • Quality

• I'm comfortable with the life I have.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Life

• A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Up
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  • House

• Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • I Think
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• People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Trying
  • Sweet
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• It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

  

  Akeem Ayers
  • Football
  • Sport
  • Intense

• Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.

  

  William Henry Chamberlin
  • Political
  • Natural
  • Policy

• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Crowd
  • Autograph
  • Tack