Christopher Quotes

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?" We shall, little one.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

You can only have one aim per debate.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I’ll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando’s

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

I'm dying, but so are you

When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

If I can laugh, I can live.

I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

One part brave, three parts fool!

There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.