Ken Kesey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The world needs some help.
-
Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
Produce great men, the rest follows.
-
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
-
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
-
The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
-
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
-
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
-
I have always loathed working out.
-
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
-
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
-
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
-
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
-
I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
-
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
-
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
-
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
-
I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.
-
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
-
Family is the most important thing: you can't buy them with money.
-
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
-
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
