Charlie Brooker Quotes

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

Charlie Brooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 3, 1971

Topics

CloudsBetterBadJumpSayGames

'Proud Mary' was the best song for me to perform because it was so much fun.

Jessica Sanchez

BestFunMeSongProudBecause

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

Michael Haneke

ThinkDoingNewHealthyEveryone

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Rita Rudner

LoveWritingSingingThoughtComedy

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Roberto Cavalli

BirdMomentI AmMeFreeFeet

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

Ron Howard

ImaginationSpaceExplorationExcited

I think some horror authors are trying to scare you, but with me, I'm as scared as the reader is of the story. I've always been that way, since watching the 'Twilight Zone' movie - watching 'Firestarter' when my parents were out, or sneaking out to watch 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at a friend's house because I couldn't watch it at my house.

Josh Malerman

FriendParentsMeStoryThinkYou

I was asked to audition for the second season of 'Stranger Things.' I didn't want that level of exposure. I don't want to be TV famous.

Josh Tillman

FamousWantStrangerThingsLevel

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Thomas Browne

LifePowerDeathTakeAwayUs

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers

PastReadingRememberJournalYears

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Growing UpWorldGrowingKnowMore

I love Charlotte Olympia and Sophia Webster shoes best - they're like art for the feet.

Lily Collins

LoveArtShoesBestFeetLike

Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling.

Lesli Linka Glatter

TrustStoryYouTellingMaterial

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