Christopher Moore Quotes

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Think
  • Dance
  • Audience

• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Trust

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • People
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Help
  • Blessed

• I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Power
  • Change

• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • History
  • Freedom

• I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Admire
  • Heroes

• It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• I've always moved into a band where the musicians are a lot more capable than me. It's always been a conscious effort and it makes you raise your game.

  

  John Verity Argent
  • Game
  • Musicians
  • Capable

• Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good

• To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

  

  Emile Durkheim

• Healthy eating doesn't have to be crazily complicated; it can actually be so fun.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Fun

• When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

  

  Christopher Moore
  • People