Walter Kirn Quotes
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
Walter Kirn
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
Pamela Meyer
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan
Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
Raf Simons
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Aaron Siskind
Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
F. Gary Gray
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
A. R. Rahman
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
Oscar Robertson
By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
Hans Vestberg
My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
Randy Houser
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai
Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.
Ben Carson
If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.
Alexander Crummell
I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.
Ryan Gosling
We saw a countless number of post-chaises full of boys pass by yesterday morning - full of future heroes, legislators, fools, and villains. You have never thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese. I cannot bear not to be thanked.
Jane Austen
That sense of power was all she craved.
Bel Kaufman
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
Walter Kirn
