Peter Landesman Quotes

The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.

Peter Landesman

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• You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • You
  • Say
  • Spy

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Go

• I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work
  • Free
  • Best

• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Real
  • Words
  • Lies

• I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Said
  • Say
  • Vote

• If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Way
  • Step
  • British

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Fortune
  • Rainbow
  • Traveled

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

• That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Small

• If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Death

• Dalí went on shocking the bourgeoisie till the end. The others, Ernst, Magritte, were all accepted into the critical fold as serious painters. Only Dalí held out till the end. He just didn't give a damn.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Serious

• A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature

• I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.

  

  Lorelei Linklater
  • Pretty

• London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• 'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Song
  • Temptation

• It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it.

  

  James Patterson
  • Serious

• It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Beautiful
  • Emotional

• I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Golf
  • Will

• When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Trust
  • Jesus
  • Way Of Life

• When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Service

• The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.

  

  Peter Landesman