Ken Hill Quotes
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
Quotes to Explore
-
I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
-
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
-
I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
-
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
-
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
-
Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
-
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
-
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
-
Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
-
Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
-
I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
-
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
-
I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
-
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
-
I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
-
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
-
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
-
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
-
Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.
-
My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.
-
I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
-
Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
-
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
-
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
