Bendiksen Christopher Quotes & Sayings

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it — Terry Pratchett

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'M HAVING THE THOUGHT THAT . . . — Russ Harris

Faster ... Faster ... it'll stop all right when the time comes ... — Evelyn Waugh

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality. — Isabella Rossellini

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works. — Linus Torvalds

My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women ... We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures. — Michelle Obama

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film. — Francis Alys

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. — Mao Zedong

Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self. — Adi Shankara

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available. — Herb Gray

But the events that transpired on those various dates did not throw the city of Moscow into upheaval. When the page was torn from the calendar, the bedroom windows did not suddenly shine with the light of a million electric lamps; that Fatherly gaze did not suddenly hang over every desk and appear in every dream; nor did the drivers of a hundred Black Marias turn the keys in their ignitions and fan out into the shadowy streets. For the launch of the First Five-Year Plan, Bukharin's fall from grace, and the expansion of the Criminal Code to allow the arrest of anyone even countenancing dissension, these were only tidings, omens, underpinnings. And it would be a decade before their effects were fully felt. No. — Amor Towles

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. — William Gilbert

I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How many do you think there are?" Stefan whispered.
"More than the fleas in my bed," Oakes answered.
Stefan glared at him. "I've been sleeping in your bed!" he hissed. — Jack Lewis Baillot