Keith Crown Quotes

A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

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• By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Death
  • Man
  • Black

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Free
  • Team

• I grew up with Bond.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Bond

• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Blood

• Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • You
  • Box
  • Limited

• My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Mom

• If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • High
  • Like
  • California

• Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Military
  • Leader

• I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Agree

• Cut off the head of the snake

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Snake

• It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money

• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Support

• Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Death
  • Sea
  • Addiction

• I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Music
  • Reaction

• There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Serious
  • Blue
  • Texas

• But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Up
  • She
  • Words

• Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • People
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Psychology

• A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

  

  Keith Crown
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • Apples