Peter Mayle Quotes

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I am not in politics to make more money.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Politics

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Million
  • Diabetes
  • Latino

• What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Know
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Pride

• My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Words
  • Language
  • Learn

• When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Audience

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • World
  • Power
  • Light

• At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Work
  • Relationship

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • College
  • Environment

• When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the back of their minds, a fear that, 'If I take a woman, she might prioritize her family over the job and, therefore, not be available at times when her presence is required.'

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• God has formed the soul and body of the Virgin Mary full of the Holy Spirit, so that she is without all sins, for she has conceived and borne the Lord Jesus.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • She
  • Soul

• I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

  

  John Banville
  • People
  • Great

• You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

  

  Peter Mayle
  • She
  • Mad