Ken Kesey Quotes

Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys don't look so crazy to me.

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• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Beautiful
  • Streets
  • Store

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • School
  • Think

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • True
  • Man

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Right
  • Hit

• The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Interest

• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Air
  • Son

• Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Free
  • Strong

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Play
  • Looking

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

  

  Kim Novak

• It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Women
  • Sorry

• Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Reading

• At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Hate

• Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys don't look so crazy to me.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Crazy
  • Sorry