Christopher McCormick Quotes

She was beautiful in the way people call the desert beautiful, which is to say that although some people actually believed it, most of the time it was said in response to someone else's denigration of it.

Christopher McCormick

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• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Never
  • Humble

• I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Want
  • Care

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• Certain struggles never end.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Never
  • End
  • Struggles

• Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • May
  • Today
  • Lost

• Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Greatest

• In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Support
  • Nobody

• Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

  

  Takeshi Uchiyamada
  • Time
  • Driving
  • Most

• We drank a toast to innocenceWe drank a toast to now.And tried to reach beyond the emptinessBut neither one knew how.

  

  Dan Fogelberg

• I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Clever

• One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Real

• Trump did not create the forces that propelled his candidacy. But he recognized them, tapped into them, and unleashed a gusher of nationalism and populism that will not soon dissipate.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Trump

• The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Death
  • Christian

• Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill every fuckin parasite politician that ever mouthed lies and fascist platitudes in a shell-suit and a smarmy smile.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Lies
  • Smile

• … the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Lonely
  • Cat

• Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'

  

  Charlyne Yi
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• As a rule, you'll not have much trouble having your way, if you are right.

  

  E. W. Howe

• The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

  

  John Sayles
  • Movie

• She was beautiful in the way people call the desert beautiful, which is to say that although some people actually believed it, most of the time it was said in response to someone else's denigration of it.

  

  Christopher McCormick
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Someone