Christopher Quotes

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

If you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

In space you don't stop.

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

Just two people in love.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

God made me an Atheist

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?

His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

To undo a Jew is charity and not sin.

Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.

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

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

We often live next to monsters unawares.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land.""Like me, then, " I said."Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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

Happiness is only real when shared.