Kingman Quotes & Sayings

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. — Erma Bombeck

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Most artists are surrealists ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get. — Hillary Clinton

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

What I am enjoying about short stories is that almost-tangible moment at the beginning, when there is no idea in my mind what kind of world I am about to enter. — Ann Kingman

Blessings will never cease to shower upon those who mind their own life with humility of accepting mistakes versus those who find joy in judging others to divert attention from their miserable lives. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

God is great, God is faithful".

~R. Alan Woods [2103] — R. Alan Woods

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

I'm happier than I've ever been in life. Happy with my life outside of racing. Really happy with my life inside the garage. — Matt Kenseth

Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures. — Clement Of Alexandria

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation. — Deepak Chopra

For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are not going to find soft corals like in the western Pacific - places like Indonesia, Palau, or Fiji. — Brian Skerry

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax. — Seneca.

If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it. — Mel White

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren't a lot of big fish schools. — Brian Skerry

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy. — Jason Calacanis

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race. — Carter G. Woodson

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Most artists are surrealists — Dong Kingman

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism. — Dong Kingman