Christopher Moore Quotes

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

Christopher Moore

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• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Management

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  

  Parker Posey
  • She
  • Movie
  • Star

• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Small
  • Action

• We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.

  

  Jonathan Grayer
  • Time

• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • History
  • Suicide
  • Presidential

• I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • History
  • English
  • Dog