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

• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Financial
  • News
  • Enthralled

• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• 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

• 'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dance
  • Young
  • Garden

• 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

• It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Christian

• The first time I flew after September 11, I honestly was a little paranoid. As I was going to the metal detector, I was looking at my duffel bag, and I'm like, 'Do I have anything that's like a weapon?' I was really paranoid they were gonna find something sharp, and I was gonna get in trouble.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Time
  • September

• When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

  

  Milton Berle
  • School
  • Kid
  • Teachers

• In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

  

  John Lilly
  • Mind
  • True

• I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Let It Go

• There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Way
  • Destination
  • Hesitation

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

  

  Christopher Hitchens