Eugene Kennedy Quotes
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
Quotes to Explore
-
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
-
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
-
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
-
India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
-
To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
-
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
-
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
-
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
-
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
-
I am very shy with people I don't know.
-
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
-
I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
-
A treeCannot growIn its parents’ shadows.
-
The Jews talk about 'never again.'… You cannot say 'Never again' to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!… 'Never again' don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!
-
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
-
Even the gods cannot change destiny.
-
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
-
The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.
-
I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
-
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
-
There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.
-
A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.
-
It's interesting how the Vatican has gotten so political when ultimately the Vatican ought to be working to lead people to Jesus Christ and salvation.
-
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
