Christgau Neil Quotes & Sayings

A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them. — Rick Heinrichs

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated. — R.C. Sproul

Sell when you can: you are not for all markets — William Shakespeare

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth. — Mike Colter

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea. — Tom Hanks

As for myself, 'total liberal outlook on life and politics' is not an accurate description. — John Harwood

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. — Bertrand Russell

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it — Bobby Fischer

The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky. — Karen Russell

A great idea is not enough. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. — George Konrad

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. — Mark Russell