Christopher Fry Quotes

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Size
  • Contribution
  • Finance

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Today
  • Style
  • Now

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

  

  Mark Barrowcliffe
  • Up
  • American
  • Beginning

• So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Reading
  • Mom
  • Deep

• If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.

  

  David Cameron
  • Education
  • Control
  • Lost

• Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • True

• I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

  

  Christopher Fry
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