Christopher Quotes

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...

In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

I have three kids. I was blessed with very supportive parents and some close friends, and the people closest to me are my inspiration.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great.

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence