Peter Greenaway Quotes

We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.

Peter Greenaway

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Exist

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Done
  • Car
  • Boy

• Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Political
  • Numbers
  • Data

• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Moving

• Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Need
  • Two
  • Divided

• I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

  

  J. Cole
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Dream

• Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Control
  • Better
  • Competition

• My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Always

• Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Films

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Song
  • Girl

• In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

  

  Gale Norton
  • People
  • Always
  • Effort

• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Peace
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Up

• I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

  

  George Murray
  • Strong

• Some people feel like I'm arrogant. It's unfortunate, because people don't know my heart.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Heart

• We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be very rewarding.

  

  Peter Greenaway