Peter De Vries Quotes

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

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• As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Journey

• At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Different
  • Two

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Working
  • Fate
  • Guilty

• Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Positive

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• I take my work seriously.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Giving
  • Hate

• Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Help
  • Always
  • Yourself

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Tennis

• Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Evil
  • Prince
  • Bubbles

• I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Authority
  • Reach
  • Empire

• HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Children
  • Texas

• I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Friends

• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  

  Peter De Vries
  • Children
  • Value
  • Marriage