Peter Marshall Quotes

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Peter Marshall

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• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Up
  • Music
  • American

• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • School
  • My Life

• Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Green

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Work
  • Lazy
  • Someone

• I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Team

• What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • She
  • Fear
  • Small

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Animals

• There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Television

• The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Financial
  • Institutions

• The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Innovation

• In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

  

  Maimonides
  • Soul

• Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

  

  Jon Cryer
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Boss

• I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side of me, sooner or later, has to face my disobedient side. And, in the end, the latter always wins.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Readers
  • Wins
  • Conventions

• I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

  

  Marcello Giordani
  • Training

• I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

  

  Lucas Grabeel
  • Hope

• Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

  

  Natalie Angier
  • Joy
  • Trust
  • Cooperating

• Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

  

  Peter Marshall