Peter Hammill Quotes

To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.

Peter Hammill

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• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Space
  • Attitude
  • Vanity

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Vision

• No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Man
  • Woman

• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • History
  • Politics

• I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Small
  • First
  • West

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • College
  • Really
  • Singer

• Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • High

• Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dark
  • Hair

• I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

  

  Eminem
  • Earth

• Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Lies
  • Friendship

• It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

  

  Arthur Guiterman
  • People
  • Life
  • City

• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Gay

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• My guiltiest pleasure in life is 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' I watch them all - old, new - I don't care. Despite how bad the writing is on the show. The people getting hit and hurt, that's hilarious.

  

  Russell Peters
  • People
  • Writing
  • Home

• I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • Famous

• I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Time
  • Friend

• To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.

  

  Peter Hammill