Christopher Quotes

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

Health is not just a physical phenomenon. We do not just have physical bodies.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your heart may the stars watch over you)

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.

There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die. - Ty from Stolen

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

Why understand when you can believe?

Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.