Kenneth Koch Quotes
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!
Quotes to Explore
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Capitalism is an art form.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
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Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.
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We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
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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!
