Craig Brown Quotes
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
Quotes to Explore
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
