Kent Quotes - Page 2

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Arthur Godfrey

School, College, Symphony

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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

Audrey Niffenegger

Dark, Hell, Bent

Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

Jo Brand

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Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.

William Shakespeare

Running, Kings, Rain

William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.836

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Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.

Rachel Caine

Grandma, Thinking, Waiting

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For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Brad Meltzer

Ideas, Superhero, World

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..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Leonard Cohen

Wanted

Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.159, Vintage

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"Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?"
"Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say.
"I promise," he whispers.

Lauren Oliver

Fog, Voice, Forever

"Before I Fall: The official film tie-in that will take your breath away". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2010.

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Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

Christopher Moore

Kings, Moving, Fall

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So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

Lauren Oliver

Knights, Shining, Doe

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What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

Christopher Moore

Names, Towns, Hail

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Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Quentin Tarantino

Baby, Morning, Clothes

"Kill Bill: Vol. 2". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Gene Simmons

Glasses, Air, Looks

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Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

John Polkinghorne

Years, Class, Village

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I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

Seth MacFarlane

Mother, School, Childhood

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

Sara Zarr

Mother, Thinking, Yelling

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Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

Ben Roethlisberger

Building Up, Fields, Saws

"Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

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On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

Rand Paul

Drones, Criteria, States

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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

Bill Bryson

Science, Work Out, Royal

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You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

Rainbow Rowell

Glasses, Ugly

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

Sara Shepard

Reading, Glasses, Black

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There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.

Jim Lee

Unique, Special, Triangles

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It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

Scott McClellan

Parent, Coincidence

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Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

Jerry Coleman

Funny, Baseball, Humor

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I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

Karen Russell

Brother, Sibling, Understanding

"The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'". Interview with Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

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