Christopher Isherwood quote: "Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort."

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

...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

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

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

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

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

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, on...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

We live in stirring times - tea-stirring times.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

They keep telling you, when you’re older, you’ll have experience—and that’s supposed to be s...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at t...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-b...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

[EM] Forster was the only living writer whom he would have described as his master. In other people�...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

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

So now George has arrived. He is not nervous in
the least. As he gets out of his car, he
...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

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

He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I'v...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecut...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shavi...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else adm...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bi...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly r...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a l...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

No one ever hates without a cause....
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, a...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes liste...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

The past is just something that's over.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I fou...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim l...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Now, for example, people with freckles aren’t thought of as a minority by the nonfreckled. They ar...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secr...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of m...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing e...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and t...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Finally, after a glance at Notre Dame and a brisk trot through the Louvre, we sat down at a cafe on ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I have kept this diary doggedly, day by day, because I believe a continuous record, no matter how fu...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

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

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

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-communit...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstra...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of ma...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on pu...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and Sou...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russi...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there unti...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

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

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

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

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

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Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

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