Peter Falk Quotes

I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Author

• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Think
  • Doing

• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Long
  • Real
  • Know

• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Technology

• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Long
  • Religious

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • May
  • Day

• I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • God
  • Long
  • Thank God

• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Long
  • Together
  • Food

• Never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. It was all joy. Mother used to say she never had seen such a happy child - that I awakened each morning with a smile. I don’t remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, for fear I’d miss something.

  

  Mary Martin
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Mother

• We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• Even China's leaders routinely let the news media pool in, though they do their best to ignore them.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • Ignore
  • Pool

• I think that, at the end of the day, those voters Barack Obama voters are going to join ranks, and it is going to help propel Hillary Clinton to victory.

  

  Bill Burton
  • Victory
  • Voters
  • Barack Obama

• Modesty needs to come from the heart.

  

  David K. Bernard
  • Heart
  • Needs
  • Modesty

• I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Long
  • Sleep