Chris Eigeman Quotes

It is not always easy to change country.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

The reality is, I'm not 24 or 34 anymore. Things are going to be different when I prepare for and when I compete in an athletic endeavor.

Fashion should evolve slowly, without any revolution.

It's difficult to adapt to Barcelona.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

It wasn't easy for me to find my feet when I first arrived in Europe.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.

There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.