Brian Christian Quotes

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • First
  • Got
  • Adolescent

• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Lose

• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Need
  • Once
  • Awhile

• When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Never
  • Military
  • Hands

• I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • God
  • Day
  • Car

• I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Doing
  • Million

• I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Food

• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Week
  • Times
  • Thrift

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Growing
  • Teacher

• I loved campaigning for Obama.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Loved
  • Obama
  • Campaigning

• Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night. So hold me tight till the room is light And tell me that it's all right.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labour with an age of ease.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • Age

• If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

  

  Albert Camus
  • History

• If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Goals

• My mother was really courageous.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Mother

• I've seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way, and there was no way she could undergo surgery at her age. Even though I was concerned for her, I didn't know at that time what she had to go through.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Way
  • Beauty
  • Flowers

• What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Waiting

• It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Time
  • Power
  • Fear

• I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Up

• Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing... you're just inspired by it; you're not trying to say, 'Look, I can do that.' No one can do what he did.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Trying
  • Inspired

• Sometimes there’s so much that needs to be said that the literal site disappears, becomes, as in My Dinner with Andre...

  

  Brian Christian
  • Literal site
  • My Dinner with Andre