Peter Greenaway Quotes

Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.

Peter Greenaway

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• People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • World
  • Gold

• I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Word
  • Worst
  • Possible

• When you have to work, work with a smile.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Work
  • You
  • Smile

• So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Doing
  • Overcome

• Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Family
  • Art
  • Myself

• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Father

• If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Power
  • Happy

• I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Rock

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Great
  • Space
  • Service

• There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Wanting

• I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Goal
  • Serve
  • Aspiration

• I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Peace
  • Learn

• When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Fear

• What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Running

• For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in government and corporations) is not equivalent to organization per se (which they regard as necessary), and that coercive organization should be replaced by decentralized, nonhierarchical organization based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid. This is hardly a rejection of organization.

  

  Chaz Bufe
  • Organization
  • Arguing
  • Replaced

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

  

  John Cusack
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Escape
  • Dancer
  • Virtues

• Esmerelda, the grieving widow, continues to burn and scream. In our minds we rush to save her from the consuming flames. But cannot.

  

  Peter Greenaway