Christopher Hitchens Quotes

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Christopher Hitchens

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• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Stop
  • Band
  • Door

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Brain

• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • World
  • Music
  • Emotion

• I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Children
  • Family
  • Why

• I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Romantic

• Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.

  

  Quintilian

• I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Humble

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Art
  • May
  • Interesting

• The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes
  • Ballet

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  

  Jerry Weller

• The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • World
  • True

• I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

  

  Max Charles
  • Different

• At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

  

  Aprilynne Pike

• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • Health

• There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Space
  • Problem
  • Enjoy

• I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • God
  • Free
  • Regret

• All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• We all want to inspire! As we go on our life's journey, some people inspire us and in turn, we would like to do something to inspire other people.

  

  Barbara Padilla
  • People
  • Journey
  • Inspire

• I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Atheist