Christopher Quotes

I have a dream! Because I have lived a nightmare.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.

It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.