Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister....It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

Christopher Hitchens

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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Relationships
  • Celebration

• To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Song
  • Me
  • Soothing

• This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Love
  • Strong

• In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Family
  • Sister

• I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Pressure
  • Tomorrow

• My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Part

• It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Real
  • Art

• Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Religious
  • Honor
  • Celebration

• November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

  

  Bjork
  • Singing
  • Celebration

• I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.

  

  James Roday
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Time
  • Money
  • Food

• When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Celebration

• In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.

  

  Paula Deen
  • True
  • Game
  • House

• I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

  

  James Corden
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebration.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Amazing

• Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

  

  William P. Young
  • Life
  • Art
  • Culture

• My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Help
  • Hood

• Say the opposite, say the opposite, say the same thing, say the same thing. (song/refrain on 'The Show').

  

  Ze Frank
  • Song

• To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister....It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Celebration