Top 100 Kingston's Quotes
#1. Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston's in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our relationship with the planet.
Samantha Trenoweth
#2. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's
Marlon James
#4. I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#5. I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.
Sean Kingston
#6. I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston
#7. The difference between mad people and sane people ... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#8. It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.
Sean Kingston
#9. I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
Jimmy Cliff
#10. Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.
Margo Kingston
#11. Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#12. Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#14. Keeping things 'just in case' indicates a lack of trust in the future.
Karen Kingston
#15. The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
Alex Kingston
#16. The weak can often become strong in the hands of the unscrupulous.
Charles Kingston
#17. As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.
Margo Kingston
#18. What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
Jack Kingston
#19. In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
Alex Kingston
#20. If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
Alex Kingston
#21. Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston
#22. Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence.
Karen Kingston
#23. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
Margo Kingston
#24. Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#25. For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:
Maxine Hong Kingston
#26. I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
Jack Kingston
#27. Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name-total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.
Gwen Stefani
#28. I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.
Sean Kingston
#29. Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.
Karen Kingston
#30. I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
Alex Kingston
#31. We were made to get along, to be together, and
it's a truth that's medically attested... Love and dance and connection strengthen every bodily system, while isolation, rage and sadness poison them with cortisol.
Steven Heighton
#32. It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.
Alex Kingston
#33. The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.
Jack Kingston
#34. The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was a combination of occasional sexual harrassment with genuine affection. She's such a terrific actress and such a lovely person.
Paul McCrane
#35. I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.
Alex Kingston
#36. When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#37. Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
Jack Kingston
#38. I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#39. Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office.
Margo Kingston
#40. I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
Sean Kingston
#41. It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#42. I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.
Margo Kingston
#43. Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#44. The part of River Song, the Doctor's companion in his eleventh incarnation, was originally offered to Kate Winslet. She turned it down and the part went to Alex Kingston.
Andy Bell
#45. Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.
Sean Kingston
#47. Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
Alex Kingston
#48. I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston
#49. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#50. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)
Maxine Hong Kingston
#51. Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#52. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
Alex Kingston
#53. I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#54. There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
Jack Kingston
#56. My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.
Sean Kingston
#57. And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
Betty Hill
#58. It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#59. King Kofi Kingston. The initials are horrible but the name sounds great.
CM Punk
#60. He turns to me and blinks. "You need to go to Kingston and I need the feathers of a snowy owl." He says it so plainly, so flat, like we're speaking about pizza toppings.
Anonymous
#61. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#62. Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.
Karen Kingston
#63. In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
Jack Kingston
#64. When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#65. There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#67. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#68. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.
Margo Kingston
#69. I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.
Alex Kingston
#72. Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
Jack Kingston
#73. We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#74. King Kofi Kingston, that does have a nice ring to it. But not so much the initials, though.
CM Punk
#75. I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#78. But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#79. Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston
#80. People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#81. I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For
Marlon James
#82. If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.
Margo Kingston
#83. Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
Jack Kingston
#84. I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
Alex Kingston
#85. If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...
Lauren Oliver
#86. Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.
Sean Kingston
#87. But here's the thing
no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you "need".
Karen Kingston
#88. I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#89. When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.
Karen Kingston
#90. No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).
Margo Kingston
#91. There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#92. Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#93. So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Jack Kingston
#94. Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#95. I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
Portia Simpson-Miller
#96. It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
Jack Kingston
#97. Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#98. The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#99. Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
Jack Kingston
#100. I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
Desmond Dekker
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