Christopher Quotes

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Happiness only real when shared.

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

The devil is more interesting than God.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.