Brian Christian Quotes

One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.

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• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Better
  • Cats
  • Fat

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • America
  • Kings

• I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Growing
  • City
  • Building

• I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Different
  • Heart

• I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Love
  • Want
  • Wonder

• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Die
  • Bit

• This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Today

• No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Great

• The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Dog

• People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

  

  Liang Chow
  • People
  • Environment
  • California

• I'm up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Up
  • Fall

• I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Interesting

• They've been back and forth, so that's it. There's nothing else to talk about.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Back
  • Talk

• To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • People
  • Music

• One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.

  

  Brian Christian
  • People
  • Chief goals
  • Mental labor