Peter Greenaway Quotes

A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.

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• 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.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Success
  • Influence

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Singing
  • Doing
  • Boring

• When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • See
  • Islamic

• I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Leftwing

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• 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.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Great
  • Today
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• 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.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Food
  • Favourite
  • Dish

• 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.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Night
  • Working
  • Sleeping

• I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Gay

• An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Idea
  • Arise
  • Maintained

• 'But what do the words mean?' asked the wondering Mole. 'That I do not know,' said the Rat simply. 'I passed them on to you as they reached me. Ah! now they return again, and this time full and clear! This time, at last, it is the real, the unmistakable thing, simple - passionate - perfect - '

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Time
  • Real
  • Words

• Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • People
  • World
  • Game

• You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

  

  Aza Raskin
  • Design
  • Dictate
  • Innovating

• A man bringing himself, melody and mathematics into perfect and enviable proportions. / only more so, much more so.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Perfect