Caroline Knapp Quotes

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

Caroline Knapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1959 - June 3, 2002

Topics

DogPetFeelSomeoneYouWay

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.

Joakim Noah

FatherProfessionalAthleteLucky

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

John M. Grunsfeld

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'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.

Jeffrey Tambor

ParentsCelebrateYouDangerousSay

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

Jeb Bush

FaithI AmPeopleLimitsDeepI Can

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

Steven Rattner

GovernmentMindLessonPlayPossible

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

Rob Zombie

MusicMoviesNeverOverMadeMuch

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Ronnie Wood

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I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

Ronnie Dunn

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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

Mary J. Blige

MusicWordsJoyTearsColorYou

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

Mickey Cochrane

MeSayWantThey SayClassics

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

Mohamed El-Erian

MistakeKnowInvestShouldBiggest

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Lou Henry Hoover

FearGirlStandPersonIndependent

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