Peter Fenton Quotes

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees

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• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • True
  • Champion
  • Watching

• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Goal

• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Attention
  • Always
  • See

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • You
  • Find
  • Saying

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Political

• I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Never
  • Person

• What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Company

• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Person
  • Prosperity
  • Turn

• They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Left
  • Colour
  • Pants

• Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Manner
  • Quite
  • Butter

• I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Mind

• The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• The first woman minister, Antoinette Brown, had to meet ridicule and opposition that can hardly be conceived to-day. Now there are women ministers, east and west, all over the country.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Country

• In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. There simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Books
  • Danger
  • Emotions

• Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

  

  David Corn
  • Opinion
  • Moral
  • Arbiter

• I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Teenage
  • Prude

• But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Design

• In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Perform

• If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees