Peter Greenaway Quotes
A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
-
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
-
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
-
When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
-
I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
-
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
-
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
-
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
-
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
-
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
-
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
-
I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
-
No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
-
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
-
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
-
When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
-
I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
-
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
-
Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
-
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
-
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
-
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
-
What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.
-
A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.
