Mary Karr Quotes

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Mary Karr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1955

Topics

ChildhoodPeopleMeControlFeet

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Jerry Saltz

AgePaintingYouthArtistNowTiny

When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Jenna Morasca

MoneyBusyHelpAttentionYouWant

I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

Andrea Bocelli

LoveMusicPeopleThinkImportant

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

Maxine Hong Kingston

ThinkProcessProductTellStudents

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

Michael Chang

OpportunityDayRoadYearLookNew

One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

Lisa Ling

BeautifulSmartPeopleProudThink

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

Jonathan Franzen

LifeBirdsMy LifeAttentionPay

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

Chris Isaak

LoveGoodTalentDoingEnoughKnow

I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.

David Shuster

ThinkGenerationFallNewsMayHe

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

Brian Chesky

YourselfStartToughThinkPotential

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

Bob Mould

CareerBluesConnectSomethingBeen

When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

Bobby Seale

ServicePeopleBlackGivingParty

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