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.

Eugene Kennedy

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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.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Force
  • Democratic
  • Ideal

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• 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.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Day
  • Artist

• What is sought can never produce the seeking.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Never
  • Produce
  • Sought

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Honor
  • Find
  • Belief

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• 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.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Horse

• 'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016

  

  Samantha Bee

• 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.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World
  • Women

• The beginning is always today.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Today
  • Beginning

• It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Moving

• In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Morning

• I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Kids
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Effort
  • Result

• I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

  

  James Dyson
  • Search

• I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Desire
  • Pleasure
  • Satisfied

• 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.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Death
  • Childhood
  • Seeds