Kenton's Quotes

#1. Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.

James Kaplan

#2. Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.

Thomas Maltman

#4. I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

Rob Andrew

#5. He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.

Erskine Caldwell

#6. My goddesses! Where now? Forsaken?
Oh hearken to my call, I rue:
Are you the same? Have others taken
Your place without replacing you?

Alexander Pushkin

#7. Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane)
It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Billy Campbell

#9. You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

Jill Ker Conway

#10. We fear what we don't understand and find serenity in what we're incapable of understanding..

Scott Hildreth

#11. When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Stan Kenton

#12. Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band ... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Stan Kenton

#13. I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.

Jill Soloway

#14. Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

Jon Hendricks

#15. We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track.

Jonathan Friesen

#16. A city of light and music, watched over by an alabaster castle with an opal tower so bright it could be viewed for miles. The

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

Stan Kenton

#18. You should live every day," Kenton paused as he reached for the door handle, "as if you're going to die at midnight.

Scott Hildreth

#19. If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

Justin Theroux

#20. Running into a burning building probably wasn't the smartest move Kenton Lake had ever made. Then again, sadly, it wasn't his dumbest either.

Cynthia Eden

#21. Life every day as if you're going to die at midnight

Scott Hildreth

#22. Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal.

David McRaney

#23. Don't rap if you do not practice.

Hopsin

#24. Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Chuck Palahniuk

#25. Ask yourself throughout the course of each day, 'if this were my last day on earth, would I do anything differently?

Scott Hildreth

#26. I've always been an animal lover my entire life.

Jillian Hervey

#27. New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

E.B. White

#28. I think trance music is the only music you can listen to without taking drugs. You can really feel the emotions in it. You can get on another level without the drugs. If you listen to techno, it's so monotone that you really need drugs to enjoy it.

Tiesto

#29. I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

Stan Kenton

#30. Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Jim Coleman