Peter Greenaway Quotes

I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...

Peter Greenaway

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• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Hope
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Friend
  • Silence
  • Hurts

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • See
  • England
  • Wreck

• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Giving
  • Best
  • Effort

• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • High
  • Happiness

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

  

  Man Ray
  • Name
  • Simply
  • Documents

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
  • Most

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• I want to work on environmental issues.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Work

• I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • Country
  • Money
  • Pretty

• When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership.

  

  Fabio Capello
  • Stop
  • Fire
  • Goals

• I sit here for hours. It's like sitting amongst lighthouses, each lighthouse giving you a bearing on lost spaces of time...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Lost