Christopher Hitchens Quotes

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

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• As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Stop

• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Age
  • Think

• I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Learning
  • Internet

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Age
  • Never
  • Certain

• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
  • School
  • She

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Home
  • Age
  • Travel

• Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • You
  • Politics

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Business
  • Age
  • Success

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Hair

• My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Age
  • Black
  • Hair

• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Age

• Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Age
  • Retirement

• I don't care about age very much.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Age

• Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Age
  • Career
  • College

• I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • People
  • Book

• I've had ups and downs, that's just the way football goes. You can't win them all. It's a matter of learning each week and taking everything in. I'm not going to make every play, I'm going to make some mistakes, but as long as I'm not making the costly ones that are going to hurt the team, I'll be all right.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Long
  • Team
  • Play

• 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Age