Ken Kesey Quotes

They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

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• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • History

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nice

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Parents
  • Famous

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Teaches

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Words

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
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  • Kids
  • Mother

• I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fun
  • Career
  • College

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• He Manet begged me to go straight up and see his painting 'Le Balcon' - Berthe was model for this painting, as he was rooted to the spot. I've never seen anyone in such a state, one minute he was laughing, the next insisting his picture was dreadful; in the next breath, sure it would be a huge success.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Up
  • Success
  • Picture

• I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Bad

• Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mountain

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

  

  Ken Kesey
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  • Black
  • Sex