Katherine Dunn Quotes

In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

Topics

ImprovementWorldRealityIgnoreYou

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

John Carmack

GoodSoulProgrammingProgrammer

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Jello Biafra

MoneyFootballPeopleHomelessGolf

I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.

John Hogg

MarriageWomanManBeliefBetween

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

John Thaw

PersonExtrovertIntrospective

When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.

Martin Yan

GoodSoupYouMakeStock

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

Michael Richards

MomentFlyingCameraYouRightDays

Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

Joshua Micah Marshall

WorkHomePoliticalBackOpenKeep

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

Bobby Kotick

InnovationFreedomValuePeopleYou

I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.

Aretha Franklin

PeopleWorldThinkMoreGreaterFar

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Philip Guedalla

SuccessMomentManMoreLittleThan

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Seth Shostak

AloneUniverseProveNeverTelescope

I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

Toby Jones

ManMeUniverseMeetLuckyDirector

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