Top 54 Kirke Quotes
#1. Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.
Henry Kirke White
#2. It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!
Digory Kirke
#4. I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.
Lola Kirke
#5. I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.
Jemima Kirke
#6. I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.
Henry Kirke White
#7. To wind the mighty secrets of the past,
And turn the key of time.
Henry Kirke White
#8. We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
Lola Kirke
#9. I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.
Jemima Kirke
#10. I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.
Jemima Kirke
#11. The summer had been like a dream, some parts of it a nightmare, but overall a good dream. Magic.
Elizabeth Kirke
#12. I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do.
Jemima Kirke
#13. I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.
Lola Kirke
#14. I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.
Jemima Kirke
#15. People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
Jemima Kirke
#16. I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.
Lola Kirke
#17. I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.
Jemima Kirke
#18. We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.
Henry Kirke White
#19. Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.
Henry Kirke White
#20. Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.
Henry Kirke White
#21. My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear ... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
Jemima Kirke
#22. Who shall contend with time,
unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Henry Kirke White
#23. Goodness, Time's rude hand defies,
And winter lives when beauty dies.
Henry Kirke White
#24. By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
Jemima Kirke
#25. Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
Jemima Kirke
#27. The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.
Lola Kirke
#28. I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.
Jemima Kirke
#29. And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.
Henry Kirke White
#30. I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.
Lola Kirke
#31. Why don't they teach logic at these schools?
Digory Kirke
#32. I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.
Henry Kirke White
#33. Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.
Henry Kirke White
#34. I've been painting and making things since I was little.
Jemima Kirke
#35. I mean, I have worked out. I've always worked out a little, you know, when I felt it was, like ... time.
Jemima Kirke
#36. Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler
a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.
James Kirke Paulding
#37. Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.
Jemima Kirke
#38. There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.
Digory Kirke
#39. I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.
Jemima Kirke
#40. When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.
Henry Kirke White
#41. The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
Lola Kirke
#43. When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.
Jemima Kirke
#44. So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.
Henry Kirke White
#45. I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.
Jemima Kirke
#46. Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.
Jemima Kirke
#47. Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.
Kirke Mechem
#48. I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.
Jemima Kirke
#49. I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.
Lola Kirke
#50. I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.
Lola Kirke
#51. But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.
Jemima Kirke
#52. As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift.
Lola Kirke
#53. I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.
Jemima Kirke
#54. That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!
Jemima Kirke
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