Christopher Darden Quotes
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
-
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
-
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
-
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
-
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
-
I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
-
Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
-
It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
-
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
-
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
-
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
-
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
-
Your body has space within you that cannot die.
-
I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
-
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
-
One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could become Batman if you had a billion dollars at your disposal. There's nothing paranormal or superhuman or supernatural about that character. And I think his villains work the same way. You could be one of his villains just as easily.
-
Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.
-
The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.
-
Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.
-
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
