Arthur Christiansen Quotes

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arthur Christiansen

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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Roots

• Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Adventure
  • Unknown
  • Sunshine

• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Funny

• I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Like

• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Favorite

• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Friends

• Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• 'A king has soldiers, servants, messengers, lieutenants. He governs through his servants. Where are the servants of this-Anti-king?''In our minds, lad. In our minds. The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! The little traitor soul in us, in the dark, like the worm in the apple.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Different
  • Small
  • Space

• There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Reasons
  • Murdering

• If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Pretty
  • Past
  • Energy

• Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Strong

• No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Matter
  • Playas

• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Always
  • Said
  • Now

• News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

  

  Arthur Christiansen