Christopher Quotes

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

You can be childlike without being childish.

You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

After President Obama, President Rodriguez... What's the worse that can happen? The border problem gets solved and the White House lawn looks better?

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.