Katherine Catmull famous quotes

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.
-- Katherine Catmull

#Might #Walks

The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)
-- Katherine Catmull

#Grief #Flames #Sea

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.
-- Katherine Catmull

#Summer #Children #Wall

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.
-- Katherine Catmull

#Artist #Dancer #Bird

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.