K. Taylor Quotes

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

Acting is something I love.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.