Peter Gay Quotes

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Cooking

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Home
  • Gold
  • New

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Fire
  • Create

• We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Mistakes
  • Looking
  • Ahead

• In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Children
  • City
  • New York

• Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Football
  • Morality
  • Owe

• When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Book
  • First
  • Wrote

• I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Think
  • Body

• Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Work
  • Important
  • Me

• Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Strong
  • Chaos
  • Chaos Theory

• When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Politicians
  • Rush
  • Patient

• But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Age
  • Discover
  • My Soul

• What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

  

  Peter Gay