Christopher Moore Quotes

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

Christopher Moore

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• We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Say
  • Screw
  • Hostess

• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Own

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Sorry
  • Still
  • Dialectical

• Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Character

• I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Point
  • Open
  • Bills

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Achieve

• I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Love
  • Theatre

• I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Fun

• I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Day
  • Same
  • Nobody

• I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

  

  Octavia St. Laurent
  • Men

• I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• I like to think or say, some madness there.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Think
  • Madness

• Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

  

  Christopher Moore