Christopher Quotes

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Confess and be hanged.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Infinite riches in a little room.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.