Murray Kempton Quotes

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

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• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

  

  C.E. Murphy
  • She

• I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I'm not famous at my house.

  

  Mac Miller
  • House
  • Famous

• Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Life
  • Biscuits
  • Flat

• the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Life
  • Men
  • American

• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Worry
  • Patient
  • Physicians

• Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Sound
  • Silly
  • Obsessed

• If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Great
  • Country
  • Russia

• And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Humor
  • Grim
  • Brothers And Sisters

• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Persons
  • Imagine

• Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Efficiency
  • Effectiveness

• An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.

  

  George Will
  • War
  • Morning
  • Player

• It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

  

  Murray Kempton
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