Katharine Viner Quotes

Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.

Katharine Viner

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• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Care
  • Laws

• Women love a self-confident bald man.

  

  Larry David
  • Women
  • Love
  • Man

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Women
  • Think
  • Movement

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Marriage

• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Parts

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Playing
  • Talking
  • Behavior

• The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • News
  • Journalism
  • Early

• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Censorship

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • May
  • Friends

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

  

  James F. Cooper
  • American
  • Ambition
  • Abuse

• We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.

  

  Sarah Gavron
  • Today
  • Battle
  • Abuse

• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Children
  • Father

• I would watch Wizard of Oz, like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Real
  • Understanding

• Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • Abuse