Kenneth Quotes

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.