Kent Quotes:

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

- Leonard Cohen

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

topic: Wanted, Kent

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

- Jo Brand

topic: Kent

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

- Corita Kent

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Kent, Live In The Now

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

- Corita Kent

topic: Flower, Angel, Dark, Kent, Dark Moments

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

- Corita Kent

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Kent, Dark Moments

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

- Corita Kent

source: Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Art, Creativity, Mean, Kent

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

- Corita Kent

topic: Dream, Kent

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

- Corita Kent

topic: Kent

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

- Corita Kent

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Kent, Dark Moments

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

- Corita Kent

source: 1974 In the Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul.

topic: Men, Feminism, Feminine, Kent, Masculine And Feminine

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

- Corita Kent

topic: Pieces, World, Littles, Kent, Dark Moments

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

- Corita Kent

topic: People, Looks, Painting, Kent, Dark Moments

Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.

- Mark Waid

source: "Superman: Birthright". Comic series by Mark Waid, 2003 - 2004.

topic: Thinking, Connections, Freak, Kent

Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.

- Ben Affleck

source: Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Real, Ideas, People, Kent, This Guy

The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.

- Scott Snyder

topic: Honesty, Believe, Writing, Kent, Really Inspiring

Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.

- Dan Jenkins

source: Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

topic: Games, Clothes, Tennis, Kent, Samantha

I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

- John Filo

topic: Girl, Cameras, Shooting, Kent, This Girl

What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.

- Scott Snyder

topic: Mean, Thinking, Self, Kent

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.

- Anita Shreve

topic: Kent

Batman is the one you go to for answers and Clark Kent is the one you go to to really do the right thing. He stands as a shining example of what to do in any situation.

- Scott Snyder

topic: Shining, Example, Answers, Kent

I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

- John Hurt

source: Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

topic: Memories, War, School, Kent

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

- Barbara Mikulski

source: Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

topic: Moving, Hero, Glasses, Kent, Super Hero

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.

- Surya Das

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Becoming, Realizing, Contradiction, Kent, National Guard

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

- Jim Lee

source: Source: www.ign.com

topic: Adversity, Thinking, Matter, Kent

When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.

- John Filo

source: "Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970". CNN News Chat, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2000.

topic: Eye, Dust, Stupidity, Kent, Ammunition

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

- Patricia Moyes

topic: Sea, Hints, Far Away, Kent, Surrey

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

- Jello Biafra

source: Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

topic: Teacher, Class, People, Kent, Sixth Grade

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

topic: School, College, Symphony, Kent, Youngsters

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

- Audrey Niffenegger

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

topic: Dark, Hell, Bent, Kent, Lois Lane

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

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

topic: Running, Kings, Rain, Kent, Wind And Rain

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

topic: Grandma, Thinking, Waiting, Kent, Staying Power

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

topic: Ideas, Superhero, World, Kent, Ordinariness

"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

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

topic: Fog, Voice, Forever, Kent

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

topic: Kings, Moving, Fall, Kent, Power Moves

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

topic: Knights, Shining, Doe, Kent, Knight In Shining Armor

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

topic: Names, Towns, Hail, Kent

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

topic: Baby, Morning, Race, Kent, Kill Bill

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

topic: Glasses, Air, Looks, Kent

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

topic: Years, Class, Village, Kent, Parish

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

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

topic: Mother, School, Childhood, Kent

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

topic: Mother, Thinking, Yelling, Kent, Pharmacy

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

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

topic: Fields, Saws, Building, Kent, Ben Roethlisberger

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

topic: Drones, Criteria, States, Kent, Wording

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

topic: Science, Work Out, Royal, Kent, Reverends

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

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

topic: Glasses, Ugly, Kent

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

topic: Reading, Glasses, Black, Kent, Reading Glasses

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

- Jim Lee

topic: Unique, Special, Triangles, Kent, Love Triangle

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

- Scott McClellan

topic: Parent, Coincidence, Kent

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

- Jerry Coleman

topic: Funny, Baseball, Humor, Kent

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

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

topic: Brother, Sibling, Understanding, Kent