Kevin Young Quotes

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• In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Home
  • Best
  • Start

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Obsession

• I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Think
  • Born
  • Made

• They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Single

• Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• I try not to intellectualise what I do.

  

  Phoebe Philo

• I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.

  

  Allu Arjun

• I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Marriage

• It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Time
  • Band
  • Brother

• In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

  

  Kenny Marchant
  • Important
  • Today
  • Excellence

• I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • People
  • Why

• Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique, it doesn't make you all that great.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Great
  • Unique

• Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Good
  • American

• I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Words
  • Born

• I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Book
  • Judge

• Real friends stab you in the front.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • Real
  • Friends

• We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Anonymous