Kenneth Quotes

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings that are human beings.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.

Once Iran gets nuclear weapons, they may believe that they are no longer vulnerable to either.

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

The US has just consistently tried to ignore Iran. And this is ironic because the Iranians believe that the United States is as obsessed about them as they are about us.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

Let me get you all some punch,” I said. “You're leaving us?” said Isabel, sounding panicky. “I'll be right back,” I promised. “If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

I know you pretty well." "Better than anyone I think." I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.

I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Now is then's only tomorrow.

Law and order embrace on hate's border.

Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives

That which is not daring is nothing.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.