Cristofer Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a game plan. I have no idea what I'll be doing next. — Michael Cristofer

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby. — Jessica Williams

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. — Stephen Covey

I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we've come to label as codependency - who learn what it means to take care of themselves. "Nobody taught me how to take care of myself," a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. "I didn't have enough money to go to therapy, but I had enough to buy a book. — Melody Beattie

I'm totally unpredictable and never do anything consistently. — Michael Cristofer

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself, in the days when not a single bit of evidence regarding the fossil ancestors of man was recognized, distinctly stated that none of the known anthropoid apes, much less any of the known monkeys, should be considered in any way as ancestral to the human stock. — Henry Fairfield Osborn

I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules — Samuel Johnson

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! — Thomas Carlyle

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble. — Henry Edward Manning

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Cristofer did not write because he feared forgetting something. He never forgot anything, even when he reached old age. For Cristofer, the written word seemed to regulate the world. Stop its fluctuations. Prevent notions from eroding. This is why Cristofer's sphere of interest was so broad. According to the writer's thinking, that sphere should correspond to the world's breadth.

Cristofer usually left his writings in the places where he had made them: on the bench, on the stove, on the woodpile. He did not pick them up when the fell to the floor: he vaguely anticipated their discovery, much later, in a cultural stratum. Cristofer understood that the written word would always remain that way. No matter what happened later, once it had been written, the word had already occurred. — Evgenij Vodolazkin

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane. — Glenn Gould

Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. — Kim Harrison

I don't think I can do anything. I mean, I felt I had been given a bit of a gift and a key to a kind of a future. But I've always felt there is more that I can learn and that there are many people who are as good as, or better at, what I do than I am. — Michael Cristofer

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. — Voltaire

Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing. — Michael Cristofer

In a lot of teen movies nowadays, you just get the rote six stereotypes like the jock, the cool guy, the nerd, the hot girl, the girl who cares, and the girl who has glasses and is supposed to be ugly but is actually beautiful. — Penn Dayton Badgley

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep. — Michael Cristofer

That sense of family. And the way that we all interact and collaborate together. It's really gonna be something I'm gonna miss. — Meaghan Rath

John-Paul did not have the requisite organizational abilities to handle bigamy. He would have slipped up long ago. Turned up at the wrong house. Called one of his wives by the wrong name. He'd be constantly leaving his possessions at the other place. — Liane Moriarty