Kathryn Lasky Quotes

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Kathryn Lasky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1944

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ThinkThinkingWayNeverSheFirst

In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.

John Abercrombie

GoodTimePeopleYouWrongStop

So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.

John Hutton

GrowthFocusEnvironmentCreateMore

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Jeffrey Kluger

FearPeopleSufferingGunBetter

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.

Meredith Whitney

GreatYouKnowingOutBlanketCash

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia Barr

LoveLove IsFateToo MuchAlways

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

Stephen Stills

CommunicationLanguageFeelYouUp

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Stewart Udall

NatureManWillOverModernTake

When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep.

Sissy Spacek

WorkDaySleepNightAmericanFirst

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

Robert Dale Owen

PowerGovernmentPeopleExerciseCut

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Robin Tunney

WorkHomeArtPeopleSelfTake

I do not want to see the whole Egyptian people feel protected by my presence. They really have to fight for their freedom whether I'm there or not.

Mohamed ElBaradei

FreedomFightPeopleFeelWantSee

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

Jason Alexander

WorkFamilyThinkDoneEntertainment

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