Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980

Topics

TruthExperienceLongYouRun

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FictionReadItalianTendMostly

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

MeT-ShirtCriticGotOncePrinted

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

John Cassavetes

FamilyChildrenParentsEatingDown

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

John Muir

MountainSmallWonderSometimesOwn

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

John James Audubon

GoodGood HealthHealthDayWine

I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.

Andy Grammer

LoveGoodStoryYouCountryWant

For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

WorldAmericaYearOil1920sCut

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Jeff Foxworthy

UglyPeopleSomeoneYouSeenGet

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Amy Lowell

SnowFireHandsIceYouTouch

I've had chronically bad stomach aches since I was a child.

Trudie Styler

ChildBadStomachSinceHadAches

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Tommy Lee Jones

EnjoyActingMoreThanMore And More

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Tom Smothers

MotherWantTalkAlwaysHerEven

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