Peter Falk Quotes

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

Peter Falk

Quotes to Explore

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

Yo-Yo Ma
- Up
- World
- Great
Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

Pam Ferris
I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

Ian Doescher
- Great
- Different
- School
Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

Walter Kirn
- Up
- Good
- Bad
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

Candace Kita
- Fun
- Kid
- Favorite
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

Zaha Hadid
- Art
- You
- White