Famous Quotes

Quotes by Christo

• 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
• 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
• A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
• A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
• A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
• A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
• A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
• A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
• A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
• Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
• Accursed be he that first invented war.
• Accurst be he that first invented war.
• Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
• Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
• All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.
• All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
• All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
• Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
• And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
• And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
• And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
• Architecture aims at Eternity.
• As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
• As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
• At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
• Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
• Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
• Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
• Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
• But 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.
• But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
• But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.
• But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
• Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
• Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
• Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
• Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.