Christopher Bollen Quotes

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile 1978 movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express 1974 movie poster on his bedroom walls.

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• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Person

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Jews
  • Germany
  • Continuing

• I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Men
  • Women
  • Honest

• Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • God
  • Remember
  • Proud

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

  

  Don Drysdale
  • Up

• Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Game

• If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.

  

  Phil Schiller

• Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • Sea

• Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • People
  • Live
  • War

• I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.

  

  Jason Day
  • Purpose

• When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

  

  Allen West
  • People
  • American
  • Simple

• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Power
  • Law
  • Lawyer

• As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • World
  • Unity

• Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

  

  Neil LaBute

• High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Successful

• Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • School
  • America

• I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

  

  Jose Gonzalez

• I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile 1978 movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express 1974 movie poster on his bedroom walls.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Kids
  • Wall
  • Murder