Brian Christian Quotes

We can hope to be fortunate—but we should strive to be wise.

Brian Christian

• Wise
• Fortunate

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Project
  • Originally

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• Lovers should also have their days off.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Lovers
  • Days
  • Off

• I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Body

• I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Star
  • Brand

• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Humor

• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Serious

• My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Dad

• A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Wise

• Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Time
  • Trying

• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Integrity

• We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Time
  • Summer

• At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Man
  • Thought

• It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Travel
  • Wise

• The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that have been tried have fought bravely.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Good
  • Doubt
  • Discipline

• In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

  

  Paul Auster
  • Kind
  • Distance
  • Able

• We can hope to be fortunate—but we should strive to be wise.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Wise
  • Fortunate