Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
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KENNETH CHENAULT When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. Ther... KENNETH KAMLER I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to p... KENNETH BRANAGH With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. KENNETH NOLAND When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven... KENNETH KOCH For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many diffe... KENNETH BURKE The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ... KENNETH CLARK I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork ... KENNETH CRANHAM Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart. KENNETH CHOI Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have m... KENNETH FISHER It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. KENNETH KOCH I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 elect... KENNETH BLACKWELL Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a ma... KENNETH FISHER I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up. KENNETH EDMONDS Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I&... KENNETH KOCH The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have ... KENNETH BLACKWELL Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slingi... KENNETH LANGONE When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director ... KENNETH LANGONE The major driver of economics is the equilibrium approach, which has taken various forms over the ye... KENNETH ARROW At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to... KENNETH CHENAULT No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, ev... KENNETH CLARK We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appet... KENNETH OPPEL Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambl... KENNETH CRANHAM Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years... KENNETH CHOI I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast. KENNETH BRANAGH I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you ... KENNETH CAIN This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totalit... KENNETH YASUDA A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. KENNETH TYNAN I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gi... KENNETH BRANAGH The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case. KENNETH BRANAGH I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.” “Just ... KENNETH EADE To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in huma... KENNETH CLARK Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that ha... KENNETH CHENAULT The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. A... KENNETH TYNAN Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. KENNETH BOULDING The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, I
don't mean your objective or intent... KENNETH BLANCHARD It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. KENNETH AUCHINCLOSS This allows the students to receive an education tomorrow if they so choose, KENNETH ARNDT I haven't thought about that at all. KENNETH ARNDT I almost don't know where to begin. KENNETH ARNDT In my opinion, with all due respect to those in attendance, this is a Trojan horse for District 300, KENNETH ARNDT But I think the public need to know what this is entailing, KENNETH ARNDT The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again. KENNETH APFEL