Chris Priestley Quotes

Age has more to do with experience than the number of years you may have walked the earth. ~ Chris Priestley

Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished. ~ Chris Priestley

Does something amuse you?' asked Uncle Montague.
'I was merely reminding myself, Uncle, that I am getting too old to be so easily frightened by stories.'
'Really?' said Uncle Montague with a worrying degree of doubt in his voice. 'You think there is an age at which you might become immune to fear? ~ Chris Priestley

Because soldiers aren't really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They're not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story. ~ Chris Priestley

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees. ~ Chris Priestley

Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive. ~ Chris Priestley

For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more. ~ Chris Priestley

She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human. ~ Chris Priestley

In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now. ~ Chris Priestley

Some people give off a scent of danger that the wise know and avoid and that the foolish are drawn to. ~ Chris Priestley

What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope. ~ Chris Priestley

But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating. ~ Chris Priestley

But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers.
She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken. She was there always, waiting. ~ Chris Priestley

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it. ~ Chris Priestley

There are many kinds of bravery. It takes as much courage to bring a child into the world as it does to cross swords or sail into the teeth of a storm - more, maybe. ~ Chris Priestley

I don't want to be rich. I'm not interested in money. Well, not money for the sake of it. I just want more life than Mother and Father want. Don't you ever want more? - Frank ~ Chris Priestley

If ghosts exist, why are there not more? We should be tripping over them. If you can trip over a ghost. ~ Chris Priestley

Ideas come from all over the place – a lifetime of reading and watching films and TV helps of course. I play around with thoughts of what creeps me out and hope that it will creep my reader out too. ~ Chris Priestley

I would sometimes see them among the trees, as I did this particular day. They did not come near and never said a word. They stood silently among the shadows. ~ Chris Priestley

There are no fearless men in a battle. Only a liar would say different. ~ Chris Priestley

The sea is a world no one truly knows...It is constantly changing, constantly moving. It is a living thing, never ageing, but never the same. ~ Chris Priestley

Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank ~ Chris Priestley

Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse? ~ Chris Priestley

Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then? ~ Chris Carter

There is a glass girl in my bed. If I ask too many questions she will shatter. ~ Chris Killen

Touring is a tough business. ~ Chris Squire

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again. ~ Chris LeDoux

I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn't do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack. ~ Geraldo Rivera

You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally. ~ Chris Jericho

The worst thing would be to decide that it was love, and then to discover - after one was taken - that it hadn't been. No: the worst thing would be to decide that it wasn't love, and then to discover years later - old and unconsoled - that it had been. No: the worst thing - the worst, worst thing - was this having to decide. ~ Chris Cleave

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. ~ Chris Bailey

Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit. ~ Chris Burkard

It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA! ~ Chris Bosh

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture. ~ Chris Hadfield

The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power ~ Chris Hedges

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine. ~ Chris Kilham

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive. ~ Chris Bohjalian

Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward! ~ Chris Hogan

Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere. ~ Chris Hadfield

Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood and before he Who. Your choices were: serving, being served, being killed by Jack the Ripper. So, the employee class made the best of it and got with the program. It was indoor work, after all. And as a wise man once observed, "You're gonna hafta serve somebody." (Bob Dylan, C. 1497-1580). And it beat mining. ~ Chris Kelly

Hanna Krall's book Shielding the Flame drew on the experience of Dr. Marek Edelman, who before he died in 2009 was the sole survivor of the five-person command that led the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ~ Chris Hedges

Great horror stories of books and movies have seemingly come from some aspect of real-life events, and human behavior. This is evident as far back as Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho. The movie was based on a serial killer named, Ed Gein in Wisconsin. ~ Chris Mentillo

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled. ~ Chris Gardner

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun. ~ Chris Hardwick

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke. ~ Thom Yorke

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there. ~ Chris LeDoux

I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world's tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall. ~ Richard Preston

If you believe in light, it's because of the darkness.
If you believe in the truth, it's because of their lies.
If you believe in God, you must believe in the Devil. ~ Chris Ryan

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems. ~ Chris Patten

All men were tools, as she saw it. Dangerous tools, when roused, but that was why one took care in efforts of control. It all came back to leverage. It wasn't enough to ask a man if he would kill his brother. One had to make him see the consequences if he did not. Then one could only ask, which would he choose: brother or daughter? For all that kin might mean, most would choose the daughter. ~ Chris Galford

I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path. ~ Chris Stapleton

When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued. ~ Chris Hegedus

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology. ~ Chris Milk

Bring a sword to school. Trust me-those girls will leave you alone. ~ Chris Colfer