Peter M. Brant Quotes

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Society
  • Design

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Craft

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Home
  • Health
  • Best

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Allocated

• I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • Language
  • Average
  • Characteristics

• I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

  

  Peter M. Brant
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character