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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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1962

Topics

Experience Bible Generation Lens Own

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

John Cameron

Medical School Chair Physics First

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

John Dryden

Anger Mind Thoughts Long Will Never

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics You Lose Right Side Must

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Always Been Fan Andy

We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.

Andy Grammer

Trying Vices Got

To go from someone who would put something on SoundCloud and maybe get 15,000 plays in a year to getting 100,000 plays in one day felt very weird. I thought I was dying.

Shura

Day Thought Weird Someone Year Go

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

Ron Glass

Funny Opportunity Sometimes Project

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

Mary Roach

Love Feel Enough Look Will Eat

Japanese people, they're not really one to complain.

Mirai Nagasu

People Complain Japanese Really

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

Chris Chocola

Universe Ownership Force Greatest

There is a new economy out there, what I call the Crypto-Tech Economy, that could be as big, if not bigger, than the web economy. So we have to be prepared for it.

William Mougayar

Be Prepared New Economy Out Bigger

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Paulo Coelho

Communication Day Universe Every Day