Kenneth Quotes

I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!

There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

I'm such a clever Toad.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of its solution.

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

Certainly, we have entered into a new age on our planet.

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.