Christopher Quotes

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

My heart died a while back. [Eragon]

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.

Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

You've got to give more than you take.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I'm a nudist at heart.

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

Clint Eastwood doesn't moisturize! But Clint Eastwood needs to moisturize!