Christopher Egan Quotes

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

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• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Year
  • Lived
  • Canada

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  

  Ovid
  • Why
  • Nothing
  • Details

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• It ain't over till it's over.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Over
  • Till

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'

  

  Edward Heath

• But as our explanation will be more brief than one broken in upon by words of wonder, regret, and affection, we will proceed to it ; holding that explanation, like advice, should be of all convenient shortness.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Words
  • Wonder
  • Advice

• Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Small

• Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains;They crowned him long ago,On a throne of rocks - in a robe of clouds –With a Diadem of Snow.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Snow
  • Clouds

• The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Money

• I believe in status symbols.

  

  Brooks Stevens
  • Believe

• I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

  

  Arabella Weir

• You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • Believe

• Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Paris

• That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People

• If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Power
  • Revolutionary
  • Absolutes

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food unrefrigerated, but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms out of a field; have a very simple sense of humor which even my appreciative critics find tiresome; I go to bed late and get up late when possible. I do not travel much.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Critics
  • Late
  • Sense Of Humor

• I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

  

  Christopher Egan