Christopher Quotes

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

All students can learn.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created but that I use to express my individualism.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

If he fancied her anymore," Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, "I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself." "Saphira!" Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.

As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!

No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.

It feels good to push yourself into uncomfortable territory. There's nothing more thrilling than feeling like, "This train might just come off the rails right now, in front of these people".

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

I've actually always wanted to play the character a bit 'off'. I think that could be fun.

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.

Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.

My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say "Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha."

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

Dad is a new person. A person who has learned that forgiveness is better then revenge. Next year, we'll teach him that heart attacks are not like women. You just can't keep having them!

They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

Haiti fell over? Who built Haiti? Two of the three little pigs?!

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.

I love you," you said, simple as anything.

Where are you going?" I asked. "The middle of nowhere." "I thought this was it." "Nah." You shook your head. "This is just the edge.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

I hate to see the evening sun go down.

Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.