Peter Greenaway Quotes

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical - sometimes they are tragic - yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.

Peter Greenaway

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• I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Attention
  • Amazing
  • Body

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Death

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

  

  Becky G
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Problem

• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Islamic
  • Nations
  • Philippines

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Women
  • Decisions

• I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Years
  • Old
  • Still

• I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Strong
  • Adapt
  • Surroundings

• I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Knowledge
  • Reading
  • Myself

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Picture

• What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Hope
  • Death

• Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Forever
  • Sacrifice
  • Choice

• What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Power
  • Player
  • Sports

• New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Reality
  • Dirty
  • Accepting

• I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Teaching

• The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful. There was transformation.

  

  Peter Scolari
  • Beautiful
  • Reality
  • Transformation

• Confidence is sexy. So if you're confident in who you are, that's sexier than anything.

  

  Nina Agdal
  • Confidence
  • Sexy
  • You Are

• Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical - sometimes they are tragic - yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.

  

  Peter Greenaway