Peter Greenaway Quotes

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

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• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Feel

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • May
  • Judges
  • Constitutional

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Read
  • Wrote

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Expression
  • Individuality

• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sports
  • Fans
  • Him

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Often
  • Analogy
  • Misleading

• I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Cool
  • Christian
  • Talent

• We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Poverty
  • U.S.
  • Unemployment

• In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

  

  Pete McCloskey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

  

  Ashley Judd
  • Different
  • Dream

• I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Reading
  • Problem
  • Background

• As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

  

  Peter Greenaway
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