Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: K

Franz Kafka (12)

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Meir Kahane (4)

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Frida Kahlo (5)

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Louis Kahn (3)

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Henry J. Kaiser (3)

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Immanuel Kant (13)

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Herbert Kaufman (3)

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Danny Kaye (3)

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.

Nikos Kazantzakis (7)

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

John Keats (19)

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Arthur Keith (2)

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Helen Keller (31)

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

DeForest Kelley (2)

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Frank B. Kellogg (3)

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Grace Kelly (2)

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Thomas a Kempis (12)

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Edward Kennedy (3)

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

John F. Kennedy (46)

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Elizabeth Kenny (2)

He who angers you conquers you.

William Kent (2)

All gardening is landscape painting.

Corita Kent (2)

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Jack Kerouac (6)

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Charles Kettering (11)

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Black Kettle (3)

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Ellen Key (4)

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

John Maynard Keynes (10)

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Omar Khayyam (2)

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Nikita Khrushchev (5)

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Soren Kierkegaard (22)

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Richard King (5)

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (41)

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Coretta Scott King (4)

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Charles Kingsley (6)

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Rudyard Kipling (12)

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Paul Klee (3)

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Frank Knox (2)

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Arthur Koestler (4)

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Jerzy Kosinski (6)

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Karl Kraus (8)

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (9)

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Ray Kroc (5)

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Louis Kronenberger (3)

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Joseph Wood Krutch (7)

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Stanley Kubrick (2)

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Maggie Kuhn (3)

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Charles Kuralt (8)

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.