Peter Falk Quotes

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

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• I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Enjoy
  • Audience
  • Being

• You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Look
  • Clever

• We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Important
  • Modern

• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Parents
  • Loving
  • Were

• Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dish
  • Vegetable
  • Gujarat

• We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Society
  • Create
  • Equal

• People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Annoying
  • Challenging

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Work
  • City
  • Work Hard

• I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • God
  • Day
  • Car

• Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • War
  • Support
  • Resolution

• I am vegetarian. I have a sweet tooth, so I try and avoid desserts. I binge maybe once a month. I eat every two hours, whether it is a Marie biscuit or just a slice of apple. As a result, my metabolism has improved, and this is a huge contributor to weight loss.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Weight
  • Apple
  • Vegetarian

• You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Destination
  • Los Angeles

• Its secondary career has been as a symbol of India. The prize piece of Indian heritage, it is seen to embody the country’s celebrated history and civilization...Elevated to the national symbol by outsiders, not until about 1900 was it accepted as such by Indians.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • History
  • Career

• If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept 'God.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God

• 'Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral; 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.'

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • God
  • Air
  • Thanks

• When people start talking, things happen.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Happens

• I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • First
  • Show
  • Wizard

• In the case of 'Sweet Tooth,' and in the case of a lot of stuff I do, it all starts with the image. It may be something I sketch in my sketchbooks - something that reoccurs in the sketchbooks. Eventually, a character or story line starts to grow out of that.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • May
  • Character
  • Sweet

• You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Research
  • Historical

• Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

  

  Wolcott Gibbs
  • Mind
  • Sentences
  • Backward

• I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

  

  Peter Falk