Kenneth Burke Quotes
When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
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There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
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I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
