#top

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#box #clicking #clicks #endless #experienced

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#both #clearly #defending #dire #dire need

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#could #i #just #know #makes

I wish that person outside would stop coughing. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#i #i wish #outside #person #stop

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#art #certain #fiction #had #indicate

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#became #good #hit #i #make

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#after #again #because #elbow #had

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#beings #children #decent #hope #human

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#awful #booze #cause #had #idea

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor. ↗

— Alfredo Kraus

#choice #decide #make #music #popular