Famous Quotes

Quotes by Christo

• Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
• Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
• De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
• Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
• Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
• Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
• Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
• Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
• Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
• Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
• Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
• For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
• For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
• For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
• For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
• From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
• Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
• Happiness is only real when shared.
• Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
• High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
• I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
• I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
• I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
• I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
• I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
• I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
• I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
• I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
• I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
• I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
• I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
• I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
• I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
• I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
• I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
• I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
• I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.
• I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.