Peter Hammill Quotes

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

Peter Hammill

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Audience

• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Sleep
  • Busy

• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Chance
  • Financial
  • Equal

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Remember
  • Moment
  • Three

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Name
  • Consulting

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Music
  • Age
  • Fashion

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Invasion

• You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Important
  • Alone
  • Logic

• I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

  

  Dina Merrill
  • House
  • Nice

• I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Music
  • Serious
  • Vision