Christopher Reeve Quotes

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Christopher Reeve

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Lies
  • Organization
  • Victory

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Damage

• As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fear

• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Spring

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Award

• When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Song

• I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Job
  • Service
  • Politics

• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Desire

• People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• Where equality is enthroned, freedom is extinguished. The rise of the egalitarian society means the death of the free society.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Society
  • Free

• Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Hand

• Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.'

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.

  

  Edward Bond
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • She
  • Hand

• No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Long
  • Want
  • Baseball

• I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Journey
  • Anxiety
  • Crying

• When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'

  

  Ellen Greene
  • Up
  • Princess

• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  

  Christopher Reeve