Kevin Young Quotes
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
-
I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
-
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
-
Writers should provoke disagreement.
-
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
-
If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
-
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
-
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
-
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
-
It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
-
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
-
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
-
I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
-
I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
-
Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
-
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
-
It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
-
I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.
-
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
-
I drifted about from rock to rock, from stream to stream, from grove to grove. Where night found me, there I camped. When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell. … I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.
-
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
-
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
