Caryl Churchill Quotes

What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.

Caryl Churchill

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• If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Feels
  • For Her

• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • More

• Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Looking

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Father
  • Faith
  • End

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Question
  • Facts

• I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • War
  • Fear
  • Dying

• He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death
  • Die

• There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton

• Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Political
  • Religious

• If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

  

  Andy Dunn

• Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.

  

  Astro Teller
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Time
  • Technology

• Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Work
  • Amazing

• A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • People
  • May

• During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • High
  • Space

• Wherever I go, the club is never to stay on the same square on the board: they have to move up. I don't know if it's coincidence, some calling, or destiny - but whatever it is, it's the story of my life.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Life
  • Up
  • Destiny

• I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

  

  Kim Weston
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Travel

• What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.

  

  Caryl Churchill