Peter Greenaway Quotes

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Peter Greenaway

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Believe
  • She
  • Character

• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Words

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Single
  • Democracy
  • Doing

• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Child

• There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Free
  • Amazing
  • Shops

• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Forever
  • Famous
  • Glory

• The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Promise
  • India
  • Execution

• We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dance

• There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Always
  • Nasty
  • Smiling

• Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Jung fiercely resented the implication that he was a hypocritical, self-seeking Judas, a 'rat'. Yet there was just enough truth in it to strike home. He was undoubtedly a man who liked his own way, no matter what the cost to others.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Home
  • Truth

• The verb 'fuck' has been a part of the language since at least early 1500s. The actual practice, far longer. So, no need to be embarrassed of either.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Practice

• I got my fair share of stick. But I surrounded myself with fabulous girls, and they all loved me because I made them clothes. I remember making them all leopard print tops and tartan skirts for a party we went to once. It's scary to think about it now, actually.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Remember
  • Party
  • Scary

• The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

  

  Ryan North
  • Command
  • Doubts
  • Timeless

• For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Record
  • Foo Fighters

• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Band
  • Quality

• What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Given
  • Goodness

• Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

  

  Peter Greenaway