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Have a drink, and try to relax. All right, have another drink. There are times when getting d...
JOHN CHRISTOPHER We're a chainsaw outfit. We go in and just cut and haul down to the roads.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a pe...
JOHN CHRISTOPHER The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I s...
JOHN CHRISTOPHER A general does not use the same troops over and over again.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the e...
JOHN CHRISTOPHER We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER Looks are a illusion to test the sight, the mind, and the heart to see which one will prevail, in vi...
LUKE CHRISTOPHER JOHN BRIDGEMAN

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We do...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Accurst be he that first invented war.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Confess and be hanged.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Our swords shall play the orators for us.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

What feeds me destroys me.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

There is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up ...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN One always wonders about roads not taken.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every t...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew m...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligi...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; thes...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as ...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do al...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the ...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in hel...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

Happiness is only real when shared.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

I now walk into the wild.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. Non...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sen...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There wer...
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody...
CHRISTOPHER MILLER

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not gi...
CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a compute...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main charact...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a ...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to cha...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to g...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam...
CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particula...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets y...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of priv...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that ...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT

...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can...
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-styl...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our und...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for gra...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I'm crepuscular.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg s...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim under...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu...
CHRISTOPHER LEACH

When I went back to Iraq again, after the liberation was complete, I was myself engaged on a sort of...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

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

Infinite riches in a little room.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS

Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

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

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

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

Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Children see magic because they look for it.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.
No, but it's very...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p...
CHRISTOPHER ORLET Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I lo...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

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