Ken Kercheval Quotes

Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Give
  • Chastity

• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Doubt
  • Impossible
  • Lawyers

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

  

  Iman
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Muslim

• When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • She
  • Age
  • Add

• I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • House
  • Day

• I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Shy

• This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fan
  • Discover
  • Statement

• I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Time
  • Man
  • Relationship

• Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Success
  • Idea

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
  • See
  • Brains

• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Of writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,-Will write my story for my better self,As when you paint your portrait for a friend,Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at itLong after he has ceased to love you, justTo hold together what he was and is.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Friend

• Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Time
  • Book
  • Past

• I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Great
  • Men
  • Remember

• I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Up
  • Work
  • Die

• Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

  

  Ken Kercheval