Top 100 Kahn's Quotes
#1. The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
Otto Hermann Kahn
#2. When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
Oliver Kahn
#3. Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.
Philippe Kahn
#5. Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me
Gus Kahn
#6. Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.
Herman Kahn
#7. From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
Herman Kahn
#8. I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.
Oliver Kahn
#9. Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.
Louis I. Kahn
#10. The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.
Louis Kahn
#11. You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
Bob Kahn
#12. Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn
#13. After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.
Oliver Kahn
#14. My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.
Herman Kahn
#15. Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.
Philippe Kahn
#16. I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.
Joseph M. Kahn
#17. Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn
#18. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
Roger Kahn
#19. The room is the beginning of architecture.
Louis Kahn
#20. When a scientist views things, he's not considering the incredible at all.
Louis I. Kahn
#21. Even a brick wants to be something
Louis Kahn
#22. Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.
Madeline Kahn
#23. Where's Kahn?"
"In bed. You don't mind if I pet your little pink kitty? Do you?"
I chuckled, "You mean my HOT DIGGITY DOG.
Giorge Leedy
#24. I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.
Alice Kahn
#25. A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
Herman Kahn
#26. A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing
Louis I. Kahn
#27. Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
Alfred Kahn
#28. There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
Herman Kahn
#29. Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.
Roger Kahn
#30. I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
Rachael Harris
#31. The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.
Philippe Kahn
#32. Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.
Oliver Kahn
#33. I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.
Scott Kahn
#34. New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
Herman Kahn
#36. Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
Herman Kahn
#37. The light moves slowly down its flanks and gradually fills the lower valleys.
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Peter H. Kahn Jr.
#38. I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.
Joseph M. Kahn
#39. Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
Louis Kahn
#40. Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.
Irving Kahn
#41. The biggest enemy is doubt. If you don't believe in what you are doing, you aren't going to make it.
Philippe Kahn
#42. You give to yourself by giving of yourself.
Matthew Kahn
#43. To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.
Roger Kahn
#44. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
Oliver Kahn
#45. As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Otto Hermann Kahn
#46. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.
Herman Kahn
#47. To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.
Herman Kahn
#48. I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.
Louis Kahn
#49. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
Madeline Kahn
#50. Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
Irving Kahn
#51. The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests.
Scott Kahn
#52. I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money" ... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.
Philippe Kahn
#53. Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
Louis Kahn
#54. It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.
Herman Kahn
#55. Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed,
Roger Kahn
#56. Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
Philippe Kahn
#57. Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.
Wolf Kahn
#58. For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
Herman Kahn
#59. It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.
Oliver Kahn
#60. The doctor's voice was cold. "There's nothing to put back. There's no body to go back to. The body of Lia Kahn is dead. Be grateful you didn't die with it.
Robin Wasserman
#61. Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.
Oliver Kahn
#62. I am against the whole cliche of the moment.
Herman Kahn
#63. Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!
Madeline Kahn
#64. There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
Nathaniel Kahn
#65. I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.
Oliver Kahn
#66. Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.
Irving Kahn
#69. I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Hollywood did. I knew it was a very specific audience that was there. We're also taking a shot in the dark.
Joseph M. Kahn
#70. A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.
Laurie Kahn
#71. From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
Madeline Kahn
#72. There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn
#73. Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
Madeline Kahn
#74. I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.
Wolf Kahn
#75. Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
Herman Kahn
#76. We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.
Philippe Kahn
#77. Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!
Philippe Kahn
#78. You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.
Roger Kahn
#79. There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.
Philippe Kahn
#80. The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.
Wolf Kahn
#81. As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
Nathaniel Kahn
#82. I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star. One of the things you do, as a music video director, is spot talent. Th at's one of my things. I don't just do random people.
Joseph M. Kahn
#83. The woman wasn't Mr. Kahn's sister. She was Mr. Kahn.
Sara Shepard
#84. I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working ... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
Scott Kahn
#85. I said he's the best at what he does. Not at what I do.
David Kahn
#86. Whenever I approach a record, I don't really have a science to it. I approach every record differently. First record was in a home studio. Second record was a live record. Third record was made while I was on tour. Fourth record was made over the course of, like, two years in David Kahn's basement.
Matisyahu
#87. Kahn once said, The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
Robert Hughes
#88. watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.
David Kahn
#89. Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn
#90. It's one thing when you plug into a socket in the wall and electrons flow," said Bob Kahn. "It's another thing when you have to figure out, for every electron, which direction it takes.
Katie Hafner
#91. What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.
Madeline Kahn
#92. The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong and, most of all, what I've done right, so that other people, including those in other professions, could learn from my experiences.
Oliver Kahn
#93. Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.
Alfred Kahn
#94. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.
Jenny Slate
#95. The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly what to think, you have just completely slapped the audience in the face and not given them the opportunity to interest it, and that's terrible.
Joseph M. Kahn
#96. Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted?
...Oh, it's twue! It's twue!
Madeline Kahn
#97. If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
Louis Kahn
#98. After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.
Oliver Kahn
#99. Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Roger Kahn
#100. Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man."
Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?
Sara Shepard
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