Peter Benchley Quotes

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Peter Benchley

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Loved
  • Performance

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Hard

• Fame creeps up on you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • You
  • Fame

• Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Worst
  • Boxing

• I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Free

• I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Find

• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Quality

• I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Career
  • Athlete
  • Own

• The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Great
  • Music
  • Money

• The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Equal
  • Championship

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • History
  • Legends

• Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Moment
  • For Her

• I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Why
  • Know
  • Like

• When people get to know me, they tend to support me... That's what you see in the polls.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Support

• I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

  

  Michael Urie
  • Book
  • Laptop

• The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Means
  • Governments
  • Dictatorship

• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  

  Wayne LaPierre
  • Honest
  • Criminals
  • Universal

• When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • People
  • World
  • Amazing

• At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.

  

  Ann Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Earth

• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  

  Peter Benchley