Christopher Lee Quotes

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

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• I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • She
  • Job
  • House

• I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

  

  Karen Black
  • Work
  • Career
  • Cancer

• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Acting

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Need
  • Euthanasia

• To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Fight
  • Self

• I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Christian
  • Positive
  • Messages

• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Results
  • Arrive

• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Long
  • Money

• It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, 'No, I'm happy for you?' That's when it's really sad.

  

  John Mayer
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Smile

• It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Dream
  • Light
  • Door

• Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • World
  • Disney

• When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

  

  Mike Lookinland
  • Business
  • College
  • Started

• I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Guy
  • Working Class
  • Yoko

• Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

  

  Anne Fortier
  • Beautiful
  • City

• I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

  

  Christopher Lee