Richard Dawkins Quotes

One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but I respected him for that, and I loved his debating style.

I'm from Boston, and I'm hard-headed, opinionated and a good arguer.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

I wasn't a great debater.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

My mom's the strongest, boldest woman I know.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

A more sagacious or more gallant warrior does not, I believe, exist.

He is the most brilliant speaker of the English tongue of all men on this globe

I don't get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don't know if 'laid-back' is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, 'I think he had guts.'

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

I guess I'd say I'm quite an aggressive player. Fair but aggressive, someone who likes the tough stuff.