John Kinsella Quotes

#1. From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.

David Wolfe

#2. We are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Without style, there can be no identity.

John Kinsella

#4. There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman

#5. For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

John Kinsella

#6. To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Ivan Klima

#7. Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.

John Kinsella

#8. I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Patricia Highsmith

#9. I'm pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we're not meant to see.

Karina Halle

#10. I'm not particularly invested in, nor do I really care about, photography in a general sense. It's a medium that's relatively ubiquitous, readily accessible, and that I have some facility with, so it makes sense for me to use it.

Walead Beshty

#11. It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.

John Kinsella

#13. The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Donald Barthelme

#14. For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

John Kinsella

#15. When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

Suzanne Collins

#16. One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

John Kinsella