Brendan Kennelly Quotes

All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.

Brendan Kennelly

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Personality

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Couple
  • Feet
  • Favorite

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Boys
  • Means
  • Loving

• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wall

• My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Job
  • Write

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Way
  • Interesting

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Unhappy

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Lyrics
  • Strange

• It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Violence

• I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Mystery
  • Content

• I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Fun
  • Sex
  • Attitude

• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.

  

  William Crawford Williamson
  • Father
  • Science
  • Dark

• I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of black people in America while simultaneously digesting new and pertinent news.

  

  Logan Browning
  • History
  • Voice
  • Research

• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Numbers
  • Months
  • Haircuts

• All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Ghosts