Peter Greenaway Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
-
The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
-
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
-
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
-
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
-
I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
-
It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
-
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
-
We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
-
Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
-
If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
-
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
-
In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
-
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
-
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
-
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
-
My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.
-
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
-
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
-
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism.
-
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
-
I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
-
'We must ask Kito to come over.'
