R.K. King Quotes

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

If I could read it, I could play it.

Corporate newspeak leads to corporate nothink.

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.

Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

The world is what you think it is

Revelations are found in clouds.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Coffee just makes me happy.

If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

When I found out that I was going to be CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.

Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style.

I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job.

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

To the devil with false modesty.

When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

My son says I never tell stories about anyone who's living.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.