Peter De Vries Quotes

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

Peter De Vries

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• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Today
  • Alone
  • Journey

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

  

  Om Puri
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Wife

• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Complains
  • Feeble

• I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Conscious

• I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Success
  • Me
  • Desire

• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Question

• The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Thoughts

• When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Film
  • Safe

• It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• 'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Experience
  • Environment
  • Mistake

• Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

  

  Archimedes
  • Balance

• No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.

  

  Karl Jaspers

• Not that this appears to affect the intentions of the political-bureaucratic elite, which in Britain as elsewhere in Europe believes that it has an overriding mission to achieve European integration by hook or by crook and which is convinced that History (with an extra-large 'H') is on its side.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • History
  • Political

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • Blessed

• Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

  

  Ben Goldacre
  • Bad

• My goal is to be the best quarterback I can be for the Colts, and hope that it's good enough.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Good
  • Hope

• When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Bullying
  • Bully

• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

  

  Peter De Vries