Christopher Guest Quotes

The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

Christopher Guest

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PeopleEarlyKnowRockTerribleDid

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Jimmy Durante

FunnyWifeSpeechNowBreatheShe

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

Trey Parker

SonGodMeWritingStoryDie

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

Tony Hoare

SimpleDesignComplicatedSoftware

I don't know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn't have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.

Ron White

FamilyDayPeopleMeYouPen

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

CommunityGreatPeaceWorldCountry

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

Mat Kearney

GoodThoughtWayFirstRadioFound

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).

Martin Rees

SpaceForwardDownThreeKindRight

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

Mike Huckabee

ChildrenHealthJobDeathGovernment

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Michelle Bachelet

FightBelieveYouInequalityWant

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

Mitt Romney

FaithRelationshipHeartChildren

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

Julia Butterfly Hill

ProductsBeliefsOnlyActions

If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write.

Judith Viorst

PeopleMeWritingConnectionWant

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Christopher Guest