Peter Cullen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
-
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
-
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
-
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
-
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
-
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
-
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
-
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
-
The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
-
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
-
Social peace requires reciprocity.
-
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
-
I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.
-
I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.
-
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
