K.M. Randall Quotes

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Museums, I love museums.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.

I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

Someday will never come and take you by the hand.

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.