Christopher Quotes

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.

Thank you, Yoda. Feel the force, Luke.

Slow down. The party won't start until I get there - Jo, Remember me. Page 43.

You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

Don’t be afraid, be terrified

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

Facebook does social really well, but continues to fail at community.

Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.

I don't agree with everything Facebook does or Mark Zuckerberg's stance on identity, but he's a nice and extremely smart guy who believes in what he's doing.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days.

That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we'll do our business. They're pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

There's no end to the brutality of this regime, but it's pretty clear this Kim Jong-un is not quite consolidated in power quite yet.

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.

There is no such thing as can't.

Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

I think the American people out in the heartland have a different view than the people in Washington.