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

• 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

• A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Society
  • Free

• I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Boys
  • Eggs
  • Cars

• I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

  

  Richard Marx
  • People
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Rock
  • Road
  • Bus

• If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Light
  • Positive
  • Things

• Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Financial

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

  

  Charlie Brooker