Peter Greenaway Quotes

Cleverness: A predisposition to irritate excessively.

Peter Greenaway

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • History
  • Leadership

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I am basically a private person.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Private Person

• The only journey is the one within.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Journey
  • inspirational
  • Only

• I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • Sound

• We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Long
  • Trying

• Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Long
  • Live
  • Heart

• Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Immigration
  • Legal
  • Achieving

• I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Politics

• Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Cruelty

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • School
  • Heart
  • Home

• I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Cleverness: A predisposition to irritate excessively.

  

  Peter Greenaway