Christopher Moore Quotes

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Study
  • Person
  • Test

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Disappointed
  • NFL
  • Disturbed

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Real
  • Ideas

• The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Best
  • Year
  • Been

• If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Thinking
  • Dreams
  • Emotions

• I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Work
  • New
  • Head

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Eating

• I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Space

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Why
  • Find
  • Curious

• You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Long
  • Learn

• People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Dark
  • Understand

• I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Love
  • Will

• You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Country
  • Silence
  • Allies

• Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Men
  • Travel

• All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Life
  • Real