Chris Riddell Quotes

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

Chris Riddell

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Alaska

• I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Kid

• There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Car
  • Thought
  • Own

• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Book
  • Want
  • Saying

• Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Funny

• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Time
  • World
  • Together

• I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Losing
  • Only
  • Sting

• I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • World
  • The Right Thing

• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Judge

• I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • You
  • Kind

• Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Lunch
  • Magical

• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Walking

• I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Risk

• There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Character
  • Drama

• I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Career

• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Long
  • American
  • Perfect

• I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

  

  Chris Riddell