Chris Hitchens Quotes & Sayings

Use your safe word if you get scared, honey."
"I'm fine." Her voice came out husky.
"Yes, you are, aren't you? — Cherise Sinclair

I want to have a family and teach them the way to live their lives, pretty much the way I was raised, with a lot of love and the Lord. I want them to stay off the streets, and to have goals and dreams. — LaDainian Tomlinson

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art. — Chris Cooper

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. It's got interpretations of a lot of different genres, too, a lot of dubby-ness and experimental stuff. — King Krule

Ordinarily, an alibi is an account of suspect's whereabouts at the time a crime was committed and it's offered up as proof of innocence, but here it didn't matter where anyone was. — Sue Grafton

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking. — Kate Jacobs

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. — Harold Rosenberg

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons. — Subcomandante Marcos

Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game. — Michel Leiris

I don't usually feel, and so I don't know how to respond to a real feeling in my body instead of a manufactured one. — Lauren Blakely

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world. — Don McCullin

The 1990s are a bad time to be poor and not-famous. — Caitlin Moran

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. — Jesse Jackson

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money. — Marilyn French