Peter Cook Quotes
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Quotes to Explore
-
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
-
Hizbullah is not a militia.
-
It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
-
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
-
I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
-
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
-
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
-
I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
-
I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
-
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
-
I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.
-
I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
-
I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
-
I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
-
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
-
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
-
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
-
I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.
-
Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love." And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face.
-
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
