Peter Falk Quotes

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • World
  • Earth
  • Population

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

  

  Ed Case
  • Want
  • Change
  • Vote

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Piano

• I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Little

• Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown

  

  Jackson Browne

• The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Long
  • Power
  • War

• I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. … There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • God
  • Father
  • Alone

• Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Long
  • Friend

• People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • War
  • Affect

• You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Words
  • Taken

• Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

  

  James Branch Cabell

• When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Clear

• I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

  

  Peter Falk