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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The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.
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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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Great thoughts come from the heart.
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I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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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.
