Katherine Johnson quote: "I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work."

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Men don't pay attention to small things.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I liked working with smart people.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I see a picture right now that's not parallel, so I'm going to go straighten it. Things must...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on wh...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Everything is physics and math.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I'm always interested in learning something new.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

I really appreciated that the chancellor addressed all of those concerns. It's nice to see that admi...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

We wanted to work with Sierra Mist to create something that was relevant to our viewers and people w...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

We're really young, so there's a lot of room for growth. If these girls stay together, and work toge...
KATHERINE JOHNSON

We got some quick baskets. We scored on transition and we really pushed the pace.
KATHERINE JOHNSON

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
KATHERINE JENKINS

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so na...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for ...
KATHERINE HEIGL

I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fe...
KATHERINE HEIGL

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and oppor...
KATHERINE BOO

I remember walking onstage in the first performance, and something hit me like a brick wall, and I j...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the school...
KATHERINE DUNN

My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mong...
KATHERINE DUNN

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and me...
KATHERINE HEIGL

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan cult...
KATHERINE DUNN

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funn...
KATHERINE KELLY

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you t...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
KATHERINE HEIGL

We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn...
KATHERINE DUNN

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I a...
KATHERINE JENKINS

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to shar...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some w...
KATHERINE DUNN

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.
KATHERINE PATERSON

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lie...
KATHERINE DUNN

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn,...
KATHERINE MIN

Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlighten...
KATHERINE TAIT

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becomin...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

But what Kezia liked more than anything, what she liked frightfully, was the lamp. It stood in the m...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
KATHERINE GRAHAM

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.
KATHERINE FRANCKE

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Make a customer, not a sale.
KATHERINE BARCHETTI

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
KATHERINE CEBRIAN

She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sittin...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
KATHERINE DUNHAM

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking
KATHERINE CEBRIAN

Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone t...
KATHERINE WHITEHORN

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to he...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships wi...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonder...
KATHERINE HEIGL

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talki...
KATHERINE BOO

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
KATHERINE DUNHAM

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wr...
KATHERINE DUNN

I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
KATHERINE RYAN

So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them...
KATHERINE KELLY

Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life....
KATHERINE HELMOND

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
KATHERINE PARKINSON

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I...
KATHERINE KELLY

We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about ou...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops...
KATHERINE PARKINSON

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to ...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all ...
KATHERINE JENKINS

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if...
KATHERINE BOO

I have actually five honorary degrees.
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own m...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more i...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.
KATHERINE PINE

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open
KATHERINE PATERSON

Gee, I’m really glad I came.”
Jess turned to Leslie in unbelief.
“It was better than...
KATHERINE PATERSON

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Ain't 'cha gonna run?" she asked.
"No," he said, shoving the sheet away. "I'm gonna fly.
KATHERINE PATERSON

—Qué va. —Hablaba en serio. Jess lo supo por su mirada—. Toda esa historia de Jesús es realm...
KATHERINE PATERSON

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pi...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewi...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his bod...
KATHERINE PATERSON

. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted eith...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

It's crazy isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
KATHERINE PATERSON

We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in t...
KATHERINE PATERSON

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were po...
KATHERINE PATERSON

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded bein...
KATHERINE PATERSON

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Shh," he said. "Look."
"Where?"
"Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians st...
KATHERINE PATERSON

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
KATHERINE PATERSON

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
KATHERINE PATERSON

It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direc...
KATHERINE PATERSON

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then be...
KATHERINE PATERSON

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision ...
KATHERINE PATERSON

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character develo...
KATHERINE WATERSTON

Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.
KATHERINE RYAN

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d...
KATHERINE JENKINS

A lazy smile reached his lips. “The mere sight of me shirtless takes your mind there? Good to know...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's q...
KATHERINE RYAN

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminate...
KATHERINE HELMOND

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
KATHERINE PARKINSON

I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I&#...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER

Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la ...
PANCOL KATHERINE

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
KATHERINE KELLY

A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and soc...
KATHERINE RYAN

A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but...
KATHERINE DUNN

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone...
KATHERINE JENKINS

My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dan...
KATHERINE DUNN

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
KATHERINE MCNAMARA

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
KATHERINE DUNN

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
KATHERINE HEIGL

Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of som...
KATHERINE LANGFORD

Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
KATHERINE RYAN

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression ...
KATHERINE DUNN

He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, fee...
KATHERINE OWEN

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS

My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of...
KATHERINE DUNN

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massin...
KATHERINE HOWE

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po...
KATHERINE HOWE

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
KATHERINE HOWE

I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veg...
KATHERINE WEBB

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explor...
KATHERINE DUNN

Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a...
KATHERINE KELLY

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have t...
KATHERINE WEBB

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn...
KATHERINE JENKINS

They’d reached the point of no return, and she wanted to throw herself into the fire until the fla...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer want...
KATHERINE DUNHAM

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human ca...
KATHERINE DUNN

When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.
KATHERINE RYAN

I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are intere...
KATHERINE JENKINS

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
KATHERINE DUNN

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my d...
KATHERINE JENKINS

I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was rea...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER

I graduated high school, and I did my internship at Dove in their public relations department becaus...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.
KATHERINE RUNDELL

I think CVS is trying to defuse this by saying there was no financial risk, but I think there was a ...
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

That's where Pfizer is crossing the line here a little bit.
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

This is kind of a wake-up call to help people understand what's out there. I think consumers are inc...
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

The industry is working on tags as small as the dot of on the letter 'i', or tags can be woven into ...
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

Do whatever you want in the back room of pharmacies, but keep it away from consumers.
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm.
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not ...
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisc...
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

While we do see the benefits of RFID to managing inventory for retailers, we think the item-level ta...
KATHERINE ALBRECHT

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both s...
KATHERINE DUNN

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
KATHERINE HEPBURN

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun.
KATHERINE GRAHAM

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of pois...
KATHERINE CEBRIAN

It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory ...
KATHERINE ANDRUS

The rule needs significant work.
KATHERINE ANDRUS

At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inf...
KATHERINE ANDRUS

The airlines are part of the overall surveillance network. We have a history of working with CDC to ...
KATHERINE ANDRUS

We think the drinking water on aircraft is safe to drink and has been.
KATHERINE ANDRUS

We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.
KATHERINE ANDRUS

The land is exceptionally beautiful.
KATHERINE ANDERTON

We would want to look at the land carefully.
KATHERINE ANDERTON

The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure fr...
KATHERINE ANDERTON

The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the ...
KATHERINE ANDERTON

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'...
KATHERINE DUNN

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told...
KATHERINE DUNN

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
KATHERINE HEIGL

I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

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