Ken Kesey Quotes

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ken Kesey

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Way
  • Introduction

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Scary

• People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Kind
  • Lesbian
  • Even

• I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Business
  • Job
  • Law

• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Important
  • Funny

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • She
  • Mother
  • Wife

• He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

  

  Hippocrates
  • War
  • Wishes
  • Surgeon

• People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People

• When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

  

  John Donne
  • God
  • Hand
  • Fall

• Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Singing

• Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Writing
  • America