David Christian Quotes

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• There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Relationships
  • Celebration

• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Different
  • Long
  • Night

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Money
  • Song
  • Single

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Three

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Bored
  • Worst
  • Destructive

• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Men
  • Man
  • Fear

• People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sources

• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Religion
  • Opposed

• Children are our future, and God loves the children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Children
  • Future

• He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

  

  Charles Dickens

• When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • Death

• USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Great
  • School
  • Discipline

• There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

  

  Dick Wolf
  • Why
  • Professional

• What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Journey

• Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Game
  • Professional

• Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn't as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of 'Jersey Shore.' Too little, and she'll look like a sister wife.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Up
  • She
  • Girl

• I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Great
  • Job
  • Waiting

• All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

  

  David Christian