We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.
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ED SELOVER The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to t...
RANDY BUCKNER Based on past studies, we expected greater activation in the frontal and parietal regions in the old...
DAVID MADDEN We are starting to see brain changes ahead of cognitive changes. We don't know yet if it predicts th...
STERLING JOHNSON The default activity patterns of the brain may, over many years, augment a metabolic- or activity-de...
RANDY BUCKNER We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
CONOR OBERST The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
GEORGE A. DORSEY The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
GEORGE DORSEY With fMRI, there were, consistently, unique areas of the brain -- and more of them -- that were acti...
FEROZE B. MOHAMED If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is Presid...
JOHN EDWARDS We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning.
DREW WESTEN I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
SAM ALTMAN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. ...
GERRIT SMITH We have received a number of calls on whether a combination of Yahoo and Disney would make sense. We...
HENRY BLODGET I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes wi...
MICHAEL ARAD I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly re...
GALEN ROWELL The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads...
BRIAN SUTTON-SMITH We will now use competitive strategies everywhere possible placing priority on the use of local and ...
DAVID PAULISON While the testimony will likely garner headlines, we don't believe it will significantly increase th...
BLAIR LEVIN The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018....
RAY KURZWEIL I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strateg...
ELVIS COSTELLO Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival be...
STANLEY HAUERWAS I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN I believe the shareholders will support reducing the dividend as part of an equality of sacrifice pl...
JERRY YORK The mind is a curious thing, whether we believe that or not, as far as not our brain will.
PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of...
DEAN KAMEN The results jumped out at us. Sometimes males and females would perform the same tasks and show diff...
EMILY BELL I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
RAHUL GANDHI I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
PANSY HO Essentially, we activate an area. We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activated, i...
GIULIO TONONI Essentially, we activate an area, ... We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activate...
GIULIO TONONI Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our resear...
FEROZE B. MOHAMED That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
ADA LOVELACE We believe this will significantly increase our ability to attract new businesses to Tehama County.
JOHN CROSBY We believe this will significantly increase our ability to attract new businesses to Tehama County,
JOHN CROSBY I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their ...
GIORGIO ARMANI You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI I believe that all men and women will be saved.
PAT BUCKLEY We will continue to see programs that encourage people to use less, certainly.
BOB FINKELSTEIN I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES We believe it's going to create a whole new class of services and will change the way people use the...
DENNIS SPECHT We really believe that folks in a time of need will be really generous.
MANDY HOTCHKISS We think that these people can tolerate more changes and maintain their cognitive performance for a ...
DR. NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS Hopefully, operators will see traffic increase as a result of people using the browsers, and that wi...
ESKIL SIVERTSEN They're not actors. They're real people. I would hope anyone who sees them will take away the extrem...
GREELEY WELLS For the first time in three years we saw an increase in domestic same-store rental revenues and we b...
JOHN ANTIOCO We believe poor recent results and management changes are leading to internal rethinking of [Wal-Mar...
GARY BALTER We believe poor recent results and management changes are leading to internal rethinking of [Wal-Mar...
GARY BALTER I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
OLGA KURYLENKO I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
DAVID ROCKEFELLER I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
ALEQA HAMMOND There are significant building improvements that will need to be made to accommodate the growth at t...
DEAN TISTADT I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wron...
CARMELO ANTHONY The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn...
DR NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn...
DR. NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS We believe that the aldermen will hear the voice of the people and act on that.
BEV CORTIANA Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the worl...
ANANT AGARWAL When we get a state, we will leave it to the people to choose. We believe that the people will choos...
MAHMOUD RAMAHI We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.
CLAUDE ALLEN We found that people with depression who have increased activity in one area of the brain and decrea...
GREG J. SIEGLE I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
A. R. RAHMAN Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the r...
JON ORINGER I anticipate that next year we will have more demonstrations and that this area will probably increa...
JOYCE MILLER In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed peopl...
H. RAP BROWN We are sure that British Muslims will be generous in sending aid to the affected regions, especially...
IQBAL SACRANIE We have to make people believe that the blues festival is here to stay, and that it's being done rig...
BOBBY RUSH Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cau...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I believe that I have such a vanilla life.
JEN LANCASTER I believe that I have always told the truth.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time,...
BORIS PASTERNAK Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We ...
HARISH RAWAT We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning....
DREW WESTEN You can use allocations or strategies that will seem unproductive or even excessively volatile, but ...
TONY WERLEY We know strategies to reduce deaths from tobacco, alcohol, poor diet, unintentional injuries, and ot...
ERICA FRANK Most people know that when we are faced with an immediate perceived “threat,” adrenaline kicks i...
JOSé N. HARRIS The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
DAVID EISENHOWER We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs ...
ALPHONSO JACKSON I believe we will stay together to fight for some real reform education reform, health reform. I ...
BARBARA KERR I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable...
MICHAEL BURRY So cognitive radio will be essential.
BILL KRENIK I believe that one day we will all be free, on this day our time on earth will be done...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence ...
CARLES PUIGDEMONT Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIO...
JOHN O. BRENNAN While we do not know how aggressively Netscape will be marketed, we believe that AOL TW will selecti...
MARK ZADELL It will force other vendor to rethink their licensing strategies and over time will cause them to ma...
ALVIN PARK [Calling Reeve, who died Sunday after nine years as a quadriplegic,] a powerful voice for the need t...
JOHN EDWARDS With the increase in leads, we will need more sales people.
MARK MCLEOD This is feedback from the field, ... There is a likelihood that (the toll) may increase.
AHMED KHAN We may be seeing a real change in moviegoing patterns. They're not going to the movies that history ...
NIKKI ROCCO The future of manufacturing is in technology. The next generation of manufacturing champions will co...
STEVEN MOORE The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategi...
CHARLES J. GIVENS I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Fee...
DAVID D. BURNS We believe now that we can get the assurances that these people will not be tortured or mistreated a...
HAZEL BLEARS The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage,...
TRAIAN BASESCU Again, it is not a good idea to lengthen stride, but use a lighter touch and quicker turnover. You c...
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People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.
CHRISTOPHER DECHARMS 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 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 ...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 The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colos...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY