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

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• 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 will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Said
  • Fiction

• 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

• The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

  

  Billy Beane
  • Baseball
  • Math
  • Random

• There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dancing
  • Performing
  • Bliss

• No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

  

  Menander
  • Experience
  • Happens

• Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Evenings

• My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

  

  Brian Kilmeade
  • People
  • Dad

• 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