Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
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When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
