Kenneth Quotes

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.