The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so na...
KATHERINE PATERSON 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 Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in ...
KATHERINE PATERSON All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a ...
KATHERINE PATERSON A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
KATHERINE PATERSON ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for...
KATHERINE PATERSON [In an atmosphere of liberty, one is as free to not open a book as to open it. Although simple in co...
KATHERINE PATERSON Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.
KATHERINE PATERSON Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fictio...
KATHERINE PATERSON It was a wonderful way to be awakened.
KATHERINE PATERSON It's very hard to believe.
KATHERINE PATERSON All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off...
KATHERINE PATERSON The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
KATHERINE PATERSON Youth is a mortal wound.
KATHERINE PATERSON To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
KATHERINE PATERSON A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
KATHERINE PATERSON Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book....
KATHERINE PATERSON The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and...
KATHERINE PATERSON One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very...
OWEN PATERSON No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of ...
OWEN PATERSON Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
OWEN PATERSON Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
OWEN PATERSON Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
SAMUEL PATERSON The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be...
OWEN PATERSON I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger a...
OWEN PATERSON We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We ne...
OWEN PATERSON As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
ISABEL PATERSON A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
ISABEL PATERSON To the credit of the regulators, they've been particularly proactive about how they're tackling this...
JAMES PATERSON We're committed to support the Royal Thai government and the Royal Thai police right to the end of t...
WILLIAM PATERSON Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants...
ISABEL PATERSON Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congres...
WILLIAM PATERSON Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.
DON PATERSON It's the way the instruments are played that determines how the stories unfold.
SCOTT PATERSON The creation of this Board, separate and distinct from Alba's Scientific Advisory Board, will provid...
BLAKE PATERSON Our target is to improve in every game we play and to get the country behind us.
CHRIS PATERSON We said at half-time that we had played poorly but we were 10-10 against the reigning champions. So ...
CHRIS PATERSON We have made massive progress under Frank,
CHRIS PATERSON We've worked tremendously hard over the summer ... It's credit to our fitness guys, who have made it...
CHRIS PATERSON We all knew what we were trying just wasn't coming off in the first half, so there was a determinati...
CHRIS PATERSON The issue here is what happens to corporate profitability. What we've found irritating in a way abou...
STEWART PATERSON No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to governme...
ISABEL PATERSON When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ...
SAMUEL PATERSON Frank is a massively intelligent man. It's difficult to sum up but he can watch a game in which we a...
CHRIS PATERSON Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematic...
ISABEL PATERSON We still believe that a deal could to be announced later on in the year. We estimate that there is b...
GREIG PATERSON The result will hinge on how much of that youth vote gets out on the streets and votes -- that may b...
JAMES PATERSON It's the youth vote who have been manifesting this anti-Americanism,
JAMES PATERSON Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to rem...
JENNIFER PATERSON Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen
SAMUEL PATERSON 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 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 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 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 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 have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I a...
KATHERINE JENKINS 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 have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some w...
KATHERINE DUNN 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 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 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 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 Make a customer, not a sale.
KATHERINE BARCHETTI I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
KATHERINE CEBRIAN She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sittin...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 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 Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone t...
KATHERINE WHITEHORN 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 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 Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops...
KATHERINE PARKINSON This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 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 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 Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
KATHERINE PARKINSON I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I&#...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la ...
PANCOL KATHERINE Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc...
KATHERINE DUNHAM You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
KATHERINE KELLY A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and soc...
KATHERINE RYAN A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have...
KATHERINE DUNHAM I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
KATHERINE JOHNSON The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but...
KATHERINE DUNN I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone...
KATHERINE JENKINS My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dan...
KATHERINE DUNN Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
KATHERINE MCNAMARA I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
KATHERINE DUNN I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
KATHERINE HEIGL Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of som...
KATHERINE LANGFORD 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 I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
KATHERINE RYAN Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression ...
KATHERINE DUNN He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, fee...
KATHERINE OWEN My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of...
KATHERINE DUNN She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massin...
KATHERINE HOWE Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po...
KATHERINE HOWE But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
KATHERINE HOWE I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veg...
KATHERINE WEBB