Christopher Dawson Quotes

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • End
  • My Life

• The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Long
  • Foundation

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Free
  • End

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Where
  • Torah

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• I like to improvise.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Like
  • Improvise

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • She
  • City

• I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Fun

• A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Present
  • Thoughts

• I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • English

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Knowledge
  • Religious
  • Analyze

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Joy
  • Smile
  • Tears

• We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Family
  • Remember
  • War

• People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Understanding

• There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Live
  • Simple
  • Reason

• The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Understanding