Kenneth Quotes
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.
It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit.
Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.
Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?
The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.
Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.
Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.
It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.
This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.
The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.
Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.
People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.