Peter Greenaway Quotes
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
Quotes to Explore
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
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Sex is energy.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.
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Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
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I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
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Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.
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If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
