Peter Capaldi Quotes

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Years
  • Down
  • Now

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Like
  • Animal
  • Name

• Most computers today have built in backup software.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Today
  • Computers
  • Software

• Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Books
  • Public
  • Quarrels

• You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Body
  • Look
  • Year

• What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Company

• I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• To eat, teeth must meet.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Security, stability and prosperity will depend on the application of the multi-sum security principle that captures the multi-dimensional aspects of security and insists on the centrality of global justice for lasting security.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Time
  • College

• Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Health
  • Sleep

• The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Truth
  • Running

• The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Time
  • Why
  • House

• If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Live

• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Storm