top of page
.png){kind=small}
All Quotes Collection
"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."
Mind,
61
"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."
57
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
49
"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."
62
"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
18
"It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth."
34
"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."
31
"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
31
"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
57
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
41
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
46
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
47
"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."
51
"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."
34
"The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read."
35
"The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling."
38
"The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time."
43
"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."
36
"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell."
45
"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."
50
"It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual."
46
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."
40
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
37
"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."
35
"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."
35
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
53
"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
44
"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."
31
"Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all."
34
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
43
"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."
37
"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
35
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
49
"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."
37
bottom of page