Kim Severson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.

  • I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

  • The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  • Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

  • This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

  • The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  • I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  • How long does getting thin take?

  • When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  • Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.