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!

Kenneth Koch

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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.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Star
  • Film
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Pessimistic

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Big

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• 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!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Funny
  • Husband
  • Sad

• I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Think
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children

• Capitalism is an art form.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to Love was always cruel And don't act strange, don't be a stranger It happened to me, now it's happening to you But if you'd take that train underwater Then we could talk it through

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • City

• When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • People
  • Together

• I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Guy

• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Act

• The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Technology

• 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!

  

  Kenneth Koch