Katherine Mansfield quote: "Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one."

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you t...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to shar...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becomin...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

But what Kezia liked more than anything, what she liked frightfully, was the lamp. It stood in the m...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sittin...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... th...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in ord...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

To work / to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives / one is so very small / but that is the satisfaction o...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask yo...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction o...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile in...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy g...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel th...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography, especially for memories of earliest ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping th...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass,...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The mind I love must have wild places.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caug...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, sudd...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD

God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
MIKE MANSFIELD

Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

The hours that make us happy make us wise.
JOHN MANSFIELD

You gotta have a body.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
LORD MANSFIELD

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD

God is God, and I'm not.
STEPHEN MANSFIELD

It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient
LORD MANSFIELD

A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right
LORD MANSFIELD

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all
LORD MANSFIELD

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the da...
LORD MANSFIELD

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
LORD MANSFIELD

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.
JAYNE MANSFIELD

The dog often appeared as this sort of iconic image.
ELIZABETH MANSFIELD

Dogs are the best and worst of ourselves. They seem at once so civilized and so wild.
ELIZABETH MANSFIELD

They're definitely playing to the new outlaw image as well. From a business perspective there are a ...
BRIAN MANSFIELD

It's the kind of thing that's easy to see as being a novelty. At the same token, he's really the onl...
BRIAN MANSFIELD

I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about cor...
HOWARD MANSFIELD

It wasn't my time, but had I died, I wouldn't have known about it.
NORM MANSFIELD

If I have caused you any pain, I'm truly sorry.
RICHARD MANSFIELD

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be w...
SIR JAMES MANSFIELD

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
SIR JAMES MANSFIELD

It is worth trying for someone who is allergic. Some products are over hyped. But one thing I recomm...
DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD

A cold or the flu starts out as a viral infection, but in some cases a secondary bacterial infection...
DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD

The continuing sinusitis is the reason for the persistent cough in my patient population. You can ge...
DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD

The reason you cough is that your body is trying to mobilize mucus and break the secretions up -- yo...
DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD

The secondary infections are why some people who have a cold and after a couple of days still feel b...
DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD

I think people have been having trouble for three or up to four weeks of symptoms, and that's a litt...
DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
KATHERINE JENKINS

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so na...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for ...
KATHERINE HEIGL

I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fe...
KATHERINE HEIGL

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and oppor...
KATHERINE BOO

I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I j...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the school...
KATHERINE DUNN

My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mong...
KATHERINE DUNN

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and me...
KATHERINE HEIGL

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan cult...
KATHERINE DUNN

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funn...
KATHERINE KELLY

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
KATHERINE HEIGL

We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn...
KATHERINE DUNN

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I a...
KATHERINE JENKINS

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some w...
KATHERINE DUNN

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
KATHERINE PATERSON

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lie...
KATHERINE DUNN

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn,...
KATHERINE MIN

Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlighten...
KATHERINE TAIT

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
KATHERINE GRAHAM

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.
KATHERINE FRANCKE

Make a customer, not a sale.
KATHERINE BARCHETTI

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
KATHERINE CEBRIAN

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
KATHERINE DUNHAM

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking
KATHERINE CEBRIAN

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone t...
KATHERINE WHITEHORN

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to he...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships wi...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonder...
KATHERINE HEIGL

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talki...
KATHERINE BOO

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
KATHERINE DUNHAM

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wr...
KATHERINE DUNN

I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
KATHERINE RYAN

So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them...
KATHERINE KELLY

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Men don't pay attention to small things.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I liked working with smart people.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I see a picture right now that's not parallel, so I'm going to go straighten it. Things must...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on wh...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to wor...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Everything is physics and math.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I'm always interested in learning something new.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life....
KATHERINE HELMOND

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
KATHERINE PARKINSON

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I...
KATHERINE KELLY

We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about ou...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops...
KATHERINE PARKINSON

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to ...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all ...
KATHERINE JENKINS

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if...
KATHERINE BOO

I have actually five honorary degrees.
KATHERINE DUNHAM

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own m...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more i...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.
KATHERINE PINE

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open
KATHERINE PATERSON

Gee, I’m really glad I came.”
Jess turned to Leslie in unbelief.
“It was better than...
KATHERINE PATERSON

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Ain't 'cha gonna run?" she asked.
"No," he said, shoving the sheet away. "I'm gonna fly.
KATHERINE PATERSON

—Qué va. —Hablaba en serio. Jess lo supo por su mirada—. Toda esa historia de Jesús es realm...
KATHERINE PATERSON

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pi...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewi...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his bod...
KATHERINE PATERSON

. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted eith...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

It's crazy isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
KATHERINE PATERSON

We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in t...
KATHERINE PATERSON

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were po...
KATHERINE PATERSON

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded bein...
KATHERINE PATERSON

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Shh," he said. "Look."
"Where?"
"Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians st...
KATHERINE PATERSON

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
KATHERINE PATERSON

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
KATHERINE PATERSON

It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direc...
KATHERINE PATERSON

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then be...
KATHERINE PATERSON

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character develo...
KATHERINE WATERSTON

Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.
KATHERINE RYAN

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d...
KATHERINE JENKINS

A lazy smile reached his lips. “The mere sight of me shirtless takes your mind there? Good to know...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's q...
KATHERINE RYAN

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminate...
KATHERINE HELMOND

Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

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Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

Katherine Mansfield

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