Chris Brasher (Christopher William Brasher) Quotes

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

Chris Brasher

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Humble
  • Hell
  • Page

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Know
  • Me
  • Chicago

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Man
  • Control

• I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Think
  • Me
  • Day

• I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Go

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Song
  • Tough

• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• Kant ... stated that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge … to make room for faith,' but all he had 'denied' was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumqueut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credantsubdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.

  

  Lucretius

• Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • Business

• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  

  Cyril of Alexandria
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Soul

• Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Leadership
  • Receive
  • Federal resources

• Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again... and people would be like, 'Why'd he sing that again?'

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

  

  Chris Brasher
  • Soul
  • Athlete
  • Olympics