Kevin Young Quotes

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

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• Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Work
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Gun

• Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • College
  • Always
  • Acting

• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Land
  • Away
  • Ants

• I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Writing
  • Words

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • motivation

• There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Shoes

• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Law
  • Better
  • Realize

• They sniffed, poor things, for their green fields,They cried so loud I could not sleep:For fifty thousand shillings downI would not sail again with sheep.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Green

• He's put a lock on the door of the House of Commons and he refuses to face the people of Canada through their elected representatives

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • House
  • Door

• A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Trying
  • War
  • Freedom

• Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • Song
  • Heaven

• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Men

• I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Thinking

• Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Forever

• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Evil

• To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Live
  • Character

• Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

  

  Kevin Young