Peter Greenaway Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
-
I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
-
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
-
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
-
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
-
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
-
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
-
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
-
Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
-
I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
-
Live fast, die young.
-
Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
-
I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
-
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
-
A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
-
We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
-
If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
-
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
-
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
-
I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.
-
When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.
-
What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.
-
I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.
-
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
