Peter Falk Quotes

I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.

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• It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• It takes madness to find out madness.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Find
  • Madness
  • Out

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Live
  • Together
  • Peace

• Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nobody

• We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Try
  • Property
  • Rather

• I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Look

• Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • School
  • Drama
  • Class

• There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Everything
  • Now
  • Wrestling

• Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Past
  • Identity
  • Challenges

• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Biology is Engineering

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Engineering

• It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Real
  • Truth

• No one fulfills himself fully. What is fulfilling oneself? Advancing as one can.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

• The best way to enrich vocabulary is organically, by coming across words in their natural habitat, taking the time to learn about them, their histories, and making lifelong friends with them.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Words

• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • May
  • Faith

• It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Pretty

• Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Men
  • Character
  • Boy

• I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • Know
  • Play

• The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

  

  William McNamara
  • Passionate
  • Disaster

• I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.

  

  Peter Falk