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“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Inspirational Quotes
#Life Quotes
#Karma Quotes
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“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Thinking Quotes
#Wonderful Quotes
#Charm Quotes
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“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Hard Work Quotes
#Genius Quotes
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“There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Knowing Quotes
#People Quotes
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“There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Advice Quotes
#Agents Quotes
#Publicity Quotes
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“the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Wire Quotes
#Relief Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Sex Quotes
#Two Quotes
#People Quotes
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“Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.”
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Kathleen Winsor
Source : Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press
#Joy Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
#Bed Quotes
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“success is often harder to take than failure ...”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Success Quotes
#Success Failure Quotes
#Harder Quotes
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“I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Success Quotes
#Hate Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“war makes strangers bedfellows ...”
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Kathleen Winsor
#War Quotes
#Stranger Quotes
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“there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Two Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Cheat Quotes
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“Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Matter Quotes
#Nothing Matters Quotes
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“... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Writing Quotes
#People Quotes
#Paint Quotes
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“I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Hands Quotes
#Experience Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
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“I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Ideas Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Pennies Quotes
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“Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.”
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Kathleen Winsor
Source : Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.19, Chicago Review Press
#Change Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Amusement Quotes
#Adultery Quotes
#Crime Quotes
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“If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness”
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Kathleen Winsor
#Wickedness Quotes
#Thrive Quotes
#Wells Quotes
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“It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.”
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Kathleen Winsor
Source : Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.46, Chicago Review Press
#Half Quotes
#Alive Quotes
#Moments Quotes
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“They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.”
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Kathleen Winsor
Source : Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.44, Chicago Review Press
#Loneliness Quotes
#Party Quotes
#Sky Quotes
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“She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...”
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Kathleen Winsor
Source : Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.654, Chicago Review Press
#Tired Quotes
#Beer Quotes
#Night Quotes
