FastSaying

Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.


Kate M. Taylor

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Most people would rather get than give affection
ARISTOTLE I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giv...
JOYCE GRENFELL And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they...
JOHN OSBORNE My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kiddin...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had tha...
TUPAC SHAKUR Focus on giving more and you will be receiving even more.
LORRIN L. LEE In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.
HIRO FUJIWARA I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship...
SARAH HYLAND ...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbi...
MIRA GRANT Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
JIM ROHN I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Frie...
JOSHUA BELL With the many uncertainties, of one thing I was sure. I could not escape love, the very thing that h...
RACHAEL WADE I'm still very much Kate.
KATE MIDDLETON In the law of giving & receiving,we need to keep giving in order to continue receiving,but the momen...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. Y...
GINA GERSHON I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going in...
ANNE HATHAWAY I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched ...
ALEX FLINN Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'...
CHARLIE PUTH Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm...
GABRIEL MEDINA The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receivi...
RACHEL VINCENT Receiving unconditional love is safer with animals. Maybe it makes giving it as a human easier
BRENT M. JONES I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine.
KATY PERRY When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to ...
PATRICIA HEATON Giving in order to get is not giving.
ALAN COHEN Getters don't get--givers get.
EUGENE BENGE I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking ...
OMAR SHARIF I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars thems...
BRETT RATNER I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have...
MADDIE ZIEGLER I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and...
JENNY LEWIS Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attac...
BRENé BROWN We're all for charitable giving, ... when it comes to a stipulated amount that is where I have diffi...
SAM BODMAN I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the s...
NOLAN NORTH The difficulty we had was that we didn't interview anybody with experience as a special education di...
BARBARA WILSON I admire her so much, but I'm not the next Kate Upton.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.
POPPY MONTGOMERY I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobod...
SANDRA TSING LOH Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
YAMI GAUTAM It hurts,” he whispered.
“What does?” asked Kate.
“Being. Not being. Giving in. ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Giving opens the way for receiving.
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN Giving opens the way to receiving.
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN Giving opens the way for receiving.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I...
DAVID GEST I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
SEBASTIAN PINERA In love there are two things: giving pleasure and receiving it.
MARTY RUBIN My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Bas...
KATE MOSS She's very comfortable with her sexuality. She doesn't have the Puritan approach that Kate had. Well...
DON BELLISARIO Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herv...
KATRINA BOWDEN Love is yours, it is up to you to nurture it and develop it with giving and receiving in large amoun...
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Giving feels fantastic and for there to be a Giver, there must be a Receiver, so allowing yourself t...
REBECCA O’DWYER I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from frie...
CONNIE WILLIS I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world...
SHIA LABEOUF Christmas Isn't About Receiving, Its About Giving.
EZEKIEL O Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.
DEBASISH MRIDHA They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even ...
JODI PICOULT Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrif...
ERICA JONG The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven ...
RICHARD STEELE SR. The best way to have in abundance is to give in essence. There is great possession in charity.
ADEWALE OSUNSAKIN Some think that God rains money from heaven. These people can never be blessed because they themselv...
PAUL SILWAY And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is better to give than receive- especially advice
MARK TWAIN Because we idealize Giving so much, we ignore the ability, blessing, and duty to Receive.
ASHLECKA AUMRIVANI Understanding RELATIONSHIPS –
If I have something to share, however, I didn’t share it wit...
SANJEEV HIMACHALI I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have...
JOSE SARAMAGO If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you'...
PATTI STANGER I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known t...
ROBIN WRIGHT It was a spiritual experience. Part of a cycle of giving and receiving.
CLARA BLAIR I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.
EVA HERZIGOVA I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I ...
SALLY PHILLIPS I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m g...
JAY ASHER You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's l...
CHELSEA CAIN for did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I love you, Missy girl. Even if I can't be with you, know that I'm here. So, that's it. More than th...
CHELSEA M. CAMERON I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot o...
MADS MIKKELSEN Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with — just your money and p...
AULIQ-ICE Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with — just your money and p...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
CAROL ANSHAW If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or d...
DAVID E. KELLEY Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
EARTHA KITT I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.
DAVID LEVITHAN I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m...
NOAH BAUMBACH Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakn...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. ...
SUSAN VREELAND I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, a...
CAMILLA BELLE Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their bro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I think the race has everything. I think it has difficulty, it has joy, it has excitement, it even h...
LANCE ARMSTRONG I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and ...
FERGIE My wife, my family, my friends-they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
DAVID CHALMERS I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to s...
KAREN KINGSBURY Love’s value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.
JEFFREY FRY But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.
DAVEY HAVOK Congressman Hunter is a close friend of Mr. Cunningham's, and friends don't abandon each other durin...
JOE KASPER I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
GAGE GOLIGHTLY Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers...
ALLEN GINSBERG I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what ...
KIRSTEN DUNST everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & ...
JAY WOODMAN

More Kate M. Taylor

I'm itching to go seal hunting this weekend - if only because there are laws against clubbing B-list...
KATE TAYLOR She knows what she's doing. She's always there when you need her.
KATE TAYLOR She's not full of herself. She's so humble after games, and she's so modest. She'll never tell peopl...
KATE TAYLOR On the surface level they've got rid of a lot of the street element, but there's still the same old ...
KATE TAYLOR We're currently discussing that. It would be great to have, but we would like someone else to run th...
KATE TAYLOR We picked this piece to open with to make it accessible to the whole community, including families. ...
KATE TAYLOR The last seat of the balcony is still closer to the stage than the last seat of the Historic Mainsta...
KATE TAYLOR Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred.
W. M. TAYLOR I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages.
Jan...
VICKI M. TAYLOR Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity.
KATE I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro...
KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b...
KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual...
KATE Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t...
KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together!
KATE More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song. It shouldn't be this hard, and it s...
KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting.
KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive... But the thou...
KATE Why do people get back in the box ?, when deep down inside there isn't room enough. And even though ...
KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis...
KATE Tic tac, tic tac. Three o clock, it's time to stop, Thinking about what is not. Tic tac, tic tac May...
KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a...
KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes...
KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things. But whe...
KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm being sleepless in the desert has it's charm. A billion ...
KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while..... Maybe I am lost longer then I think....
KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone...
KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent....... Now I know what I did wrong all the ti...
KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther...
KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep.
KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few..
KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ...
KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last...
KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun, but it looks like I have to settle for less again.
KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ...
KATE If water would be running up, would it wash away the spots, underneath the places, where we usually ...
KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t...
KATE I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M -I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
LAUREN KATE With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and...
KATE FORSYTH I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like...
KATE MOSS Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ...
KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON So the storm passed and every one was happy.
KATE CHOPIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st...
KATE WINSLET Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu...
KATE WINSLET Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha...
KATE WINSLET I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
KATE WINSLET I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
KATE WINSLET Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
KATE WINSLET I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's...
KATE WINSLET Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother...
KATE WINSLET I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d...
KATE WINSLET I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to...
KATE WINSLET Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
KATE WINSLET Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
KATE WINSLET Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to...
KATE WINSLET You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
KATE WINSLET What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life...
KATE WINSLET I do have impossibly high standards.
KATE WINSLET Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ...
KATE WINSLET Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
KATE WINSLET It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
KATE WINSLET The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho...
KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh...
KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box...
KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think...
KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'...
KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the...
KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women...
KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri...
KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history...
KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his...
KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth...
KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t...
KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa...
KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha...
KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a...
KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow...
KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ...
KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016...
KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m...
KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ...
KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ...
KATE WALSH I struggle with control.
KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama.
KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls.
KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent.
KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g...
KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is.
KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc...
KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from...
KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor...
KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of...
KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations....
KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb...
KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song...
KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i...
KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ...
KATE VOEGELE Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ...
KATE VOEGELE I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO I hate to cook and love to eat.
KATE DICAMILLO I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
KATE DICAMILLO I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay...
KATE DICAMILLO I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w...
KATE DICAMILLO I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
KATE DICAMILLO I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s...
KATE DICAMILLO I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
KATE DICAMILLO Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ...
KATE DICAMILLO Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
KATE DICAMILLO My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo...
KATE CLINTON Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo...
KATE CLINTON I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it...
KATE CLINTON What goes for sex goes double for politics.
KATE CLINTON We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
KATE CLINTON I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want...
KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
KATE CHOPIN It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s...
KATE CHOPIN No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha...
KATE CAPSHAW The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
KATE CAPSHAW The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that...
KATE CAPSHAW We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, my...
KATE BUSH I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space...
KATE BUSH I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
KATE BUSH I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
KATE BUSH Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'U...
KATE BUSH