Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Katharine Hepburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003

Topics

LifeYourselfSupportBetterYou

As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.

Jimmy John Liautaud

LovePeopleMeCustomerWallKnow

I wrestled Tyler Breeze one time when there was, like, 20 people at the show.

Jinder Mahal

TimePeopleBreezeShowLikeTyler

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

Jim Harrison

JobAnswerGetWouldDid

How can one know anything at all about people?

Anna Freud

PeopleKnowAnythingHowAbout

In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.

Stephanie Coontz

LifeFamilyHistoryBookThought

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Tom Stoppard

LifeMoreWriteEconomyAlwaysLine

When I force things, it just doesn't go well.

Rose Namajunas

GoForceThingsWellJust

I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services.

Marvin Ammori

LoveDailyFocusSearchFindiPhone

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

Midge Ure

MusicPeopleYouNiceMeetStrange

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

Mitch Kapor

TimeDecisionStartKindCompany

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

Djimon Hounsou

DreamsPeopleSurvivalFindAfrica

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Corey Taylor

LiveArtPeopleTreatYouPlay

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