Christopher Brookmyre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.
-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Believe #Interesting #World
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.
-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Girlfriend #Lying #Moving
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar
-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Eye #Islands #Hands
People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.
-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Mcdonalds #People #Meals
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!
-- Christopher Brookmyre

#Regret #Book #News

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

Christopher Brookmyre famous quotes

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