What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Debate is the death of conversation.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance...
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Business is more exciting than any game.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
KITTY O'NEILL COLLINS JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I s...
KITTY KELLEY Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the ...
KITTY KELLEY John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the...
KITTY KELLEY Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addi...
KITTY KELLEY The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalist...
KITTY KELLEY People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
KITTY KELLEY A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
KITTY KELLEY While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her...
KITTY KELLEY Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Cr...
KITTY KELLEY My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
KITTY CARLISLE Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U...
KITTY KELLEY Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you j...
KITTY KELLEY [He] ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.
KITTY KELLEY My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind...
KITTY KELLEY I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic schoo...
KITTY KELLEY I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't ...
KITTY THOMAS He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed up...
KITTY THOMAS Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of ...
KITTY KELLEY We wanted to bring interesting thinkers to the public.
KITTY BOONE I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
KITTY CARLISLE RIGHT
Do you do what feels right or what is seen right?
KITTY DOWNER REMEMBER
Do you live your life according to how you want to remember it or how you will be reme...
KITTY DOWNER Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a road...
KITTY KELLEY It's asking a lot of these freshmen to be asked to step up and play in a varsity game, but we have a...
BRYANT KITTY I have no idea what team it was to be honest with you. There's really no consistency, no heart.
BRYANT KITTY We just want to be consistent. We can accept a loss if we get beaten by a better team, but we've bee...
BRYANT KITTY He's a great kid. You figure after you saw him once you would be OK, but we saw him for an additiona...
BRYANT KITTY He wanted the ball, and the team wanted to give him the ball. He struggled a little in the first cou...
BRYANT KITTY We talked about this game being like a boxing match. A boxing match can go 12 or 15 rounds. We wante...
BRYANT KITTY We're lucky to be in the situation we're in. We struggled early, but we were due for this. I'm happy...
BRYANT KITTY There's something about this team. Our bats seem to come alive after the fifth inning. We had some t...
BRYANT KITTY It's been us committing all the errors so far, so it was nice to have someone else take a few away f...
BRYANT KITTY We've been juggling our lineup, just trying to get consistency from top to bottom. We found a little...
BRYANT KITTY They played at three last year and never lost a match together. Everything's a little tougher now.
KITTY PALMER I thought I knew madness, but I didn’t know it before you.
KITTY THOMAS I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tri...
KITTY KELLEY He is the cornerstone of a defining life moment for me.
KITTY THOMAS Your indignant behavior over the slightest perceived gender inequality makes it almost certain that ...
KITTY THOMAS There has to be some way this won’t end in tragedy. Why can’t Romeo and Juliet live happily ever...
KITTY THOMAS I can’t hate you. We’re too connected. I can’t hate you without hating me.
KITTY THOMAS We're going to be very creative. We're optimistic Canby Community Education will be around for a lon...
KITTY THIEL That's where the belt tightening will come.
KITTY THIEL That really turned things around. We're in good shape with equipment.
KITTY THIEL Our point of view is you get cleaned out in One, and lose weight in Two, and then in Three add one o...
KITTY ROSATI Most people know salt is a flavor enhancer. They don't know that it's an appetite trigger.
KITTY ROSATI It's a book whose time has come, I think is the main thing.
KITTY ROSATI There's a uniqueness in her products that is obvious at first sight. Her products are exquisite ... ...
KITTY ROBINSON Everyone gave all their effort. We have a big one Monday against Sacred Heart on Monday (after press...
KITTY PALMER We don't have a lot of experience, but we do have strength up the middle of the field with our two f...
KITTY PALMER Herrick is an all-state goaltender-probably one of the best in the state-so she really kept them in ...
KITTY PALMER I was proud of how the girls kept trying even though the score was seemingly insurmountable. It was ...
KITTY PALMER Branford was the better team and they used their experience on the fast turf and aggressiveness to t...
KITTY PALMER It was so well-played and so hard fought by both teams that you knew it would come down to just one ...
KITTY PALMER I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.
KITTY LAGARETA We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the r...
KITTY LAGARETA It became clear to us in that case there is no best practice and it is frequently something where yo...
KITTY LAGARETA You cannot rely on the traditional authoritarian model anymore. It does not work. No one wins in a p...
KITTY KELLY Dellums' entrance means a dramatic change in Oakland's atmosphere,
KITTY KELLY We don't need to settle for low-life politics in Oakland,
KITTY KELLY We want to bring a new politics to Oakland, ... We don't need to settle for low-life politics in Oak...
KITTY KELLY When Liz ran her column, Newsweek had to rip up their issue and run it sooner than they wanted, and ...
KITTY KELLEY There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be.
KITTY KELLEY The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty.
KITTY KELLEY Despite occasional bad news, hot money is still flowing into the local market as shown by the health...
KITTY CHAN Everybody expects HSBC to report growth in earnings, but whether it is a single or double-digit incr...
KITTY CHAN Competition is increasing and people are expecting prices to come down.
KITTY CHAN The Hong Kong market is a tough one for the banking sector.
KITTY CHAN Some of the items were still in dry cleaning bags. The AJ community was especially generous. I could...
KITTY CARLISLE There's a combination of really interesting people having conversations that really need to be had, ...
KITTY BOONE I know we have a contingent from Minnesota. My sister came from Tucson, Arizona.
KITTY WRIGHT He wanted to buy the whole small herd. We said he couldn't. He wanted to do it ahead of time.
KITTY WRIGHT It's very creative, covers the whole spectrum. The quality of our artists' work was top-notch.
KITTY WRIGHT I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that...
KITTY WRIGHT We did great. I do believe that the artists are very pleased.
KITTY WRIGHT The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
KITTY CARLISLE Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
JACKIE COLLINS Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
KIM COLLINS I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
JUDY COLLINS We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It'...
PETRA COLLINS I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m...
JACKIE COLLINS People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get...
JACKIE COLLINS Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
JACKIE COLLINS I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is...
JACKIE COLLINS Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ...
JACKIE COLLINS Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo...
JACKIE COLLINS I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k...
JACKIE COLLINS Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's reall...
JACKIE COLLINS The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time wit...
JACKIE COLLINS I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They...
JACKIE COLLINS I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then...
JACKIE COLLINS My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
JACKIE COLLINS I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about ...
JACKIE COLLINS I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne becau...
JACKIE COLLINS Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you...
JACKIE COLLINS I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know ...
JACKIE COLLINS If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to ...
JACKIE COLLINS If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'...
GAIL COLLINS I prefer black music in general.
PHIL COLLINS It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but ...
LILY COLLINS I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&...
GAIL COLLINS It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
GAIL COLLINS Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th...
GAIL COLLINS Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
SUZANNE COLLINS The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
GAIL COLLINS I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w...
JOAN COLLINS Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
GAIL COLLINS It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte...
JESSICA COLLINS I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
JUDY COLLINS I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
SUZANNE COLLINS I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat...
BOOTSY COLLINS In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill...
GAIL COLLINS Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in co...
SUZANNE COLLINS I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during ...
LILY COLLINS If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians we...
BOOTSY COLLINS I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just nee...
PETRA COLLINS How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
WILLIAM COLLINS Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.
WILLIAM COLLINS And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
WILLIAM COLLINS To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o...
LILY COLLINS The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselve...
TERESA COLLINS I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
SUZANNE COLLINS I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
SUZANNE COLLINS I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
SUZANNE COLLINS Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
SUZANNE COLLINS The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
SUZANNE COLLINS I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
SUZANNE COLLINS Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every...
SUZANNE COLLINS I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
SUZANNE COLLINS The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
SUZANNE COLLINS So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
SUZANNE COLLINS My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
SUZANNE COLLINS You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
SUZANNE COLLINS You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
SUZANNE COLLINS Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
SUZANNE COLLINS Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for th...
SUZANNE COLLINS And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anywa...
SUZANNE COLLINS One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
SUZANNE COLLINS My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....
SUZANNE COLLINS And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
SUZANNE COLLINS I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
SUZANNE COLLINS I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss. I remember about the bread.
SUZANNE COLLINS Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
SUZANNE COLLINS Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire beats roses again.
SUZANNE COLLINS In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
SUZANNE COLLINS I had to do that. At least once.
SUZANNE COLLINS No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
SUZANNE COLLINS Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
SUZANNE COLLINS All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.

Always.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
SUZANNE COLLINS I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
SUZANNE COLLINS You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
SUZANNE COLLINS