Koenig Quotes

#1. Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.

Walter Koenig

#2. It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

Sarah Koenig

#3. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.

David Koenig

#4. Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

Ezra Koenig

#6. And maybe one day we'll look back and wonder how we managed to live in the same house for so long, and never stopped to introduce ourselves.

John Koenig

#7. Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.

Ezra Koenig

#8. If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

Ezra Koenig

#9. All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Ezra Koenig

#10. Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.

Karen R. Koenig

#11. I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

Walter Koenig

#12. Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

Sarah Koenig

#13. Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

Ezra Koenig

#14. Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.

Ezra Koenig

#15. My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

Ezra Koenig

#16. I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

Ezra Koenig

#17. The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.

Laird Koenig

#18. I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

Ezra Koenig

#19. I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

Sarah Koenig

#20. I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.

Ezra Koenig

#21. Making every record is a process full of tough times.

Ezra Koenig

#22. You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

Ezra Koenig

#23. My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

Sarah Koenig

#24. Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Ezra Koenig

#25. Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

Ezra Koenig

#26. Giving and taking comfort in everything they could give and take, every part of them sought to make themselves one till it was impossible for either to know the comforter from the one being comforted.

Laird Koenig

#27. Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

Ezra Koenig

#28. Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

Harold George Koenig

#29. If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Ezra Koenig

#30. If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

Sarah Koenig

#31. I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

Ezra Koenig

#32. Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.

Harold George Koenig

#33. In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.

Emma Koenig

#34. I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb.

Sarah Koenig

#35. I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

Ezra Koenig

#36. You have to erase years of distorted perceptions about yourself.

Sharon Koenig

#37. As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Ezra Koenig

#38. A writer once asked what I'd say if i ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker

Ezra Koenig

#39. People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.

Harold George Koenig

#40. It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.

Ezra Koenig

#41. It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Ezra Koenig

#42. I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

Sarah Koenig

#43. No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Ezra Koenig

#44. Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Ezra Koenig

#45. In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

Ezra Koenig

#46. I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.

Ezra Koenig

#47. Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

Ezra Koenig

#48. I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.

Ezra Koenig

#49. I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.

Ezra Koenig

#50. I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Sarah Koenig

#51. When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.

Ezra Koenig

#52. Sometimes you want to dress a certain way ... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

Ezra Koenig

#53. Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

Walter Koenig

#54. I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Ezra Koenig

#55. I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

Ezra Koenig

#56. I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

Ezra Koenig

#57. Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

Ezra Koenig

#58. It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.

Ezra Koenig

#59. My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

Ezra Koenig

#60. I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

Ezra Koenig

#61. I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

Ezra Koenig

#62. You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Sarah Koenig

#63. There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

Ezra Koenig

#64. Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

Ezra Koenig

#65. Fiddling with a program until it appears to work is a reliable way of obtaining a program that almost works

Andrew Koenig

#66. I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

Sarah Koenig

#67. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Friedrich Koenig

#68. Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

Walter Koenig

#69. People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

Sarah Koenig