Pete Hamill Quotes

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

Pete Hamill

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Work
  • Think
  • Serious

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• It ain't over till it's over.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Over
  • Till

• I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

  

  Venus Williams
  • School
  • Business
  • Design

• I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Regret

• Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Focus

• If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Think

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Work
  • Love
  • Night

• When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Art
  • Internet
  • Search

• Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• You never told me he was that fucking good.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Good

• Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Positive

• In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Men
  • Piano
  • Choir

• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Political

• This group is composed of those for whom belief in saucers is tantamount to religion...They believe men from outer space will step in on Earth 'before it's too late,' put a stop to the atomic bomb threat 'by their superior powers,' and enforce perpetual peace 'for the good of the universe'...

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

  

  Pete Hamill