Kenneth Quotes

A true conservative is on the side of science.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.

Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

There are 190,000 privately-owned full-auto guns in the National Registry.

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.

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

His walk and stare. Was as poisonous as the air after a nuclear bomb.

We receive the authority when we are born again. As we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, we inherit the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can use it in prayer against the enemy.

There’s no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There’s just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus, and that cures the problem.

We must have this spirit of wisdom and revelation of Christ and His Word if we are to grow. It is not going to be imparted to us through our intellect, either. The Holy Spirit must unveil it to us.

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

...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Responsibility comes with every relationship.

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Live each day as if it were your last, for one day, you're sure to be right.