Charlie Brooker Quotes

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

Charlie Brooker

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Brain

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

  

  Karen Black
  • Books
  • Keep
  • Some

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dying
  • Means
  • Alas

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Parents
  • Body
  • Same

• It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Song

• If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Music
  • Never
  • Behind

• Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Fun
  • Math
  • Negative

• The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Power
  • Generation
  • Impact

• I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Think
  • Want

• The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Up
  • Character
  • Soul

• It is curious to observe how little one period resembles another. Centuries are the children of one mighty family, but here is no family-likeness between them.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Family
  • Period

• I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Literature
  • Teach
  • Students

• I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act onstage, but it's not a heavy pressure. When I do it, I want to do it well. I'm just educating myself with writers and scripts, because I didn't read a lot of books when I was growing up.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Enjoy
  • Growing Up
  • Writers

• Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Education
  • Health

• I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Couple

• I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Parents
  • Blessed

• I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

  

  Charlie Brooker