Walter Kirn Quotes

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

Walter Kirn

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Growth
  • Internet
  • Website

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Television
  • Radio

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Achieve
  • For Him

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Might

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Hand
  • Hands

• It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Time
  • Light
  • Darkness

• While I tend to side with economist Milton Freidman when it comes to free-market economics, there is a place for 'Made in the U.S.A.' where national security is concerned.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Free

• When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • World
  • Kids
  • True

• When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Up
  • Trying
  • War

• Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Experience
  • Literature
  • Bible