Brian Christian Quotes

Success in distinguishing when a person is lying and when a person is telling the truth is highest when … the interviewer and interviewee come from the same cultural background and speak the same language.

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• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Career

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Lying
  • Almost
  • Spy

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Remember
  • Failure
  • Person

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • You
  • Person
  • Competitive

• In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Success
  • Successful

• Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Taken

• The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Preparation

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Truth
  • Search

• New truth is often uncomfortable, especially to the holders of power; nevertheless, amid the long record of cruelty and bigotry, it is the most important achievement of our intelligent but wayward species. ''

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Power

• Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • People
  • Truth
  • Funny

• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Truth

• Success can create more madness than happiness.

  

  Billy Ocean
  • Success

• Jack: You'll have to compromise, smile, concern yourself with your public image, measure your words as carefully as possible... and turn yourself into a dutiful party hack! chuckles Never mind, Nigel, never mind.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Party

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Real
  • Joy

• When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Chief
  • Purpose Of Life
  • Knowledge Of God

• Success in distinguishing when a person is lying and when a person is telling the truth is highest when … the interviewer and interviewee come from the same cultural background and speak the same language.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Person