Kate Morton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
-
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
-
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
-
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
-
I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
-
Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
-
Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
-
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
-
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
-
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
-
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
-
I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
-
Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
-
I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
-
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
-
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
-
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
-
We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.
-
Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
-
Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.
-
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
-
Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.