Famous Quotes

Quotes by Christo

• In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
• In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
• In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
• It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
• It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.
• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
• It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
• It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
• It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
• It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.
• It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
• It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.
• It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
• It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
• It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!
• It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
• Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
• Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
• Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
• Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
• Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
• Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
• Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
• Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
• Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
• Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
• Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
• My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
• My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
• My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
• My hair was famous before I was.
• My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
• Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
• No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.