Christopher Quotes

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

Into the sky to win or die.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.

Happiness real only when shared.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

You can't really dust for vomit.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Architecture aims at Eternity

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.

The plural of spouse is spice.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.

Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.