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 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 Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the be...
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