Christopher Moore Quotes

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Christopher Moore

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• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Need
  • Down
  • Slow

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Sincerity

• My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Free
  • My Life

• Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Change
  • Simple
  • Progress

• I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Long
  • Community
  • Amazing

• I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Believe
  • Technology

• Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Career
  • Greatness
  • Legend

• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Wonder
  • Revolution

• Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • History
  • Air

• So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records. Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!

  

  Eminem
  • Records
  • Sell
  • Cuss

• Black and ugly as ever, however I stay Coogi down to the socks, rings and watch filled with Rocks.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Black
  • Ugly

• Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Life

• You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Bad

• Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Life
  • Real
  • Strong

• Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Reading
  • Victory
  • Agony

• Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.

  

  John Grant
  • School
  • Control
  • Hair

• To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Experience
  • Religious

• As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

  

  Christopher Moore