Peter Greenaway Quotes

Are animals like car-crashes - Acts of God or mere Accidents - bizarre, tragic, farcical, plotted nowadays into a scenario by an ingenious storyteller, Mr C Darwin?

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• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Say

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Learn

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Mean
  • Enjoy
  • Accurate

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Song
  • Creative

• If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Universe

• Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Successful

• If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

  

  Karen Black
  • Daughter
  • Actress
  • Lifestyle

• I believe in numbers and signs.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Numbers

• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Women
  • Tennis
  • Half

• In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy

• The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Life
  • Play
  • Dangerous

• 'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Star
  • Film
  • Write

• Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.

  

  Edmund White
  • Time
  • May
  • Community

• The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Purpose

• Are animals like car-crashes - Acts of God or mere Accidents - bizarre, tragic, farcical, plotted nowadays into a scenario by an ingenious storyteller, Mr C Darwin?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • God
  • Car