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?
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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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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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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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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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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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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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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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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
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In her eyes is the living Hght Of a wanderer to earth From a far celestial height: Summers five are all the span - Summers five since Time began To veil in mists of human night A shining angel-birth.Does an angel look from her eyes? Will she suddenly spring away, And soar to her home in the skies? Beatrice! Blessing and blessed to be!
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Fish cannot carry guns.
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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?
