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 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

• It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • People

• Let them do what I have done.

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Done

• Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Perfect
  • Karma

• He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Breakfast
  • Lake
  • Replaced

• To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Power
  • Single

• Coming from a conservative family from Mangalore, I had hardly watched any movies or television during my student days.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Family

• The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Today

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

  

  Peter Benchley