Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Christopher Hitchens

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• When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Think
  • Fashion

• To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Fun
  • Like

• Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Law
  • Action

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Best
  • Process
  • Performance

• Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Choice
  • Clear

• Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Color

• In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Generation

• It wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough airports for all the men who'd want to flee the country.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Country

• Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

  

  Edward Sapir
  • Fear
  • Wish
  • Fashion

• You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Attitude

• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

  

  Logic
  • World
  • Men

• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Intuition

• Está triste, porque te abandonan y no estás caído.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Space is really domain expansion.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Space

• Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

  

  Kim Novak

• When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• It was really important to us to strip back the songs to the way that they were written. The way that I think music brings us together, like we’re in the living room, so I can kind of push the walls down. And especially with some of these more sensitive songs, and to present them in that raw acoustic way was a really exciting way to introduce the new music.

  

  Max Ehrich
  • Important
  • Together
  • Songs

• We are a country that met successes in the fight against terrorism.

  

  Charles Michel
  • Country

• People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

  

  Denis Leary
  • People
  • Life
  • Red

• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Language
  • Danger
  • Civilization

• Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

  

  Christopher Hitchens