Ken Kesey Quotes

I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.

Ken Kesey

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Play
  • Fighting
  • Sports

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Free
  • Seriously

• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Glorification

• If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Job
  • Focus

• I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Bike

• I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • People

• I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven
  • Honor
  • Hero

• People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We too watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • People
  • Fall
  • Animal

• I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • People
  • Up
  • Alcohol