Peter Greenaway Quotes

Orchestra: Anagram of carthorse.

Peter Greenaway

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Space
  • Confidence
  • Problems

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Morning
  • Easy
  • New York

• I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Small
  • Church
  • Learn

• There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Good
  • True
  • Thought

• I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Why
  • Crazy

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• Lay your sleeping head, my love Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • People
  • Real
  • Honesty

• I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons

• Though farm chores and construction work are the most physically demanding jobs that I currently do, they feel like recess to me. And there's something really beautiful about work that feels like play.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Men
  • Women

• If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Paris

• What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • American
  • Joy
  • River

• I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Comedy

• The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

  

  Andy Bell Oasis
  • Celebrity
  • Magazines
  • Reality TV

• The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Honor

• When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

  

  Joely Richardson

• Orchestra: Anagram of carthorse.

  

  Peter Greenaway