Karen Hesse Quotes

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

Karen Hesse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1952

Topics

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I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

John Brown Gordon

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Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

John Cameron

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To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

Ameen Rihani

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Travelling is hard, but travelling and still having style is even harder.

Stephanie Sigman

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I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office.

Tony Cardenas

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Tony Robbins

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There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Robert Crumb

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You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

Mike White

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I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

Mickey Rivers

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I adore Twitter to the end of time. It is a wonderful thing, mainly for professional hockey coverage.

Luke Harper

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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Josh Billings

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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

Jose Saramago

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