Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I, for one, will not have the Vietcong insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

Christopher Hitchens

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• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Nature
  • Small
  • Style

• The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Game
  • Football

• I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Character
  • Like
  • Books

• African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Failure

• Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Fun

• Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • World
  • Different
  • Difficult

• Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Dog
  • Same
  • Nobody

• When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life

• Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Why
  • Fall

• I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Law

• They say: 'In the long run truth will triumph;' but it is untrue.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Long
  • Truth

• I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Children
  • Learning
  • Teacher

• I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Trying
  • Night

• Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • People
  • Great
  • High

• Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Truth

• When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a ball boy outside the boundary line. I picked the ball and waited a bit for Sachin Tendulkar to come near me to give it to him. The sense of being in the same space was special. While thousands were watching, I was close to Sachin.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Opportunity
  • Child
  • Players

• Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

  

  Jean-Pierre Dardenne

• I, for one, will not have the Vietcong insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

  

  Christopher Hitchens