Christopher Quotes

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Cooking is about putting food on the table night after night, and there isn’t anything glamorous about it.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

The dark is light enough.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.