Eugene Kennedy Quotes
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
Quotes to Explore
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
