Peter Greenaway Quotes

'I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.'

Peter Greenaway

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• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Day
  • Car
  • Tribe

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Good
  • Women
  • Real

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Problems
  • Economy
  • Employees

• When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Food
  • Things
  • Need

• When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Aspect
  • Crowd
  • Performer

• I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Proud

• There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Consciousness

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Half
  • Workers

• Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Generation

• The facts are always less than what really happened.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Always
  • Facts
  • Less

• Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Together
  • Partner
  • Expectations

• Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

  

  Olin Miller
  • High
  • Man
  • Rich

• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Home
  • Soul

• Kids get sick in preschool. A lot. Make sure that your kids are getting all the immune boosting they can to fight the germs!

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Kids
  • Fight
  • Sick

• 'I like sleeping. (after a pause) You were conceived in this bed.'

  

  Peter Greenaway