Ken Kesey Quotes

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Generation
  • Tough
  • Last

• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Marriage
  • Wedding
  • Flowers

• In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Music
  • Future
  • Space

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Poverty

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Me

• In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • God
  • Soul

• Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Best

• In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Country
  • Past
  • Birth

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

  

  Wale
  • Artist
  • Emotional
  • Painting

• The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Engagement

• I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Movie
  • House
  • You

• The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World

• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Determined

• As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

  

  Charles Bukowski

• Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don't fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.

  

  James Veitch
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Frustration

• I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

  

  Ken Kesey