Kris Kristofferson Quotes

The older I get, the less conservative I become.

Kris Kristofferson

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• I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Way
  • Always
  • Try

• I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Future
  • Path

• I really like sort of disappearing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Really
  • Disappearing

• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Modern

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• I always remember liking school.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • School
  • Remember
  • Always

• I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Love
  • Art
  • Water

• I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Woman
  • Win
  • First

• I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Strategy

• When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Religious

• Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Water

• My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Like
  • Brain
  • Quiet

• Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • True
  • Success
  • Self

• Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Long

• On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Black

• We've been having a lot of hearings lately about the reliability of the grid and the need for more distributive generation. We can be a leader of that here in Connecticut.

  

  Elizabeth Esty

• Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Bureaucracy
  • Proletariat
  • Rearguard

• Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • Up
  • School

• There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Family
  • Perfect
  • Party

• You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Mad

• The older I get, the less conservative I become.

  

  Kris Kristofferson