Peter Greenaway Quotes
'Imagine you are sucking the little fingers of a lady... or... no, you wouldn't understand that - since you'd never get that close to a lady - who'd want to get that close to you for God's sake?'Peter Greenaway
Quotes to Explore
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
Walter Rudolf Hess
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
J. Carter Brown -
After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
Fernando Alonso -
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch -
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Lady Gregory -
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming -
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King
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Everything I do now is a first.
Hailee Steinfeld -
I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
Calvin Johnson -
My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
Banks -
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
Larry King -
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Owen Wilson -
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
Laura Dern
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou -
With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.
David Garrow -
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
Barbara Mandrell -
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
Oswald Chambers -
'Imagine you are sucking the little fingers of a lady... or... no, you wouldn't understand that - since you'd never get that close to a lady - who'd want to get that close to you for God's sake?'
Peter Greenaway