Peter Greenaway Quotes
In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.
Quotes to Explore
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
I converse with my dog through ESP.
-
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
-
I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
-
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
-
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
-
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
-
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
-
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
-
My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
-
You lose the speed before the stamina.
-
I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
-
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
-
As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
-
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
-
One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
-
I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
-
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
-
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
-
Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
-
I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.
-
There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.
-
The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.
-
In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.
