Ken Kesey Quotes

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

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• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Silence

• People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Like
  • Popular

• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Shock

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Today

• Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

  

  Ice T
  • Happy
  • Cool
  • Win

• How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Know
  • Star
  • Look

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Light
  • Day
  • Practice

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Long
  • Success
  • Failure

• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Dinner

• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Cold

• All men - even, I have written, Jesus Christ - began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Jesus

• You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

  

  Ken Robinson
  • English
  • Class
  • Annoying

• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • She
  • Remember
  • Want

• Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Church
  • Choose
  • Scripture

• In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that's career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Up
  • Career
  • Science

• The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

  

  Ken Kesey