Peter Greenaway Quotes

The moistened thumb of the expectant reader has not yet marked the soft tissues of this lean clean smiling volume. Spread me, and break me open, for pleasure.

Peter Greenaway

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• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Broken
  • U.S.

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Used

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Welcome

• God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Him
  • Karma

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Age
  • News
  • Evening

• Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Education

• I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress things... I love that look.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Like
  • Look
  • Making

• Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Always
  • Act
  • Head

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Read
  • Emergency

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Earth

• For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Man
  • Health
  • Sickness

• It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Women
  • Crazy
  • Certain

• The moistened thumb of the expectant reader has not yet marked the soft tissues of this lean clean smiling volume. Spread me, and break me open, for pleasure.

  

  Peter Greenaway