Christopher Quotes

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.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

I don't believe in right or left; I don't believe in Santa or Satan. I believe in things I can touch - like vodka and Oreos.

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Anyone can have a relationship but if you're dating a woman who's so crazy in bed that if you aren't wearing your Kevlar one night you might never see daylight again... that's exciting.

But you just gotta understand that that's the way it is and keep on steppin'.

Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.