Kenneth Quotes

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

Anxious care is out of place in a heavenly Father's presence.

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.