K. Webster Quotes

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.