Christopher Hampton Quotes

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

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• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • History
  • Man
  • Winning

• I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Information
  • New
  • Speech

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Future
  • Want
  • Know

• I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Coaching

• I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Best

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

  

  Carla Bley
  • America
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • You
  • Government
  • Cutting

• If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Way
  • Working
  • Working Hard

• My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Faith

• If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Sacrifice

• Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Doubt
  • Design

• I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Night
  • Theatre
  • Cauldron

• Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Force

• Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Important
  • Happy

• It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • True

• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Intelligent

• I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • World
  • Mean
  • Independent

• I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Music
  • Career
  • Passion

• When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

  

  Peter L. Berger

• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

  

  Christopher Hampton