Peter Milligan Quotes

The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

Peter Milligan

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• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Mean

• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Overweight

• I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Power
  • Party

• Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • House
  • Taken

• I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Culture
  • Learn
  • Tribe

• This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Excellence

• Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Magic

• I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Country
  • Education
  • Regret

• Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Great
  • God

• If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Women
  • Children
  • American

• Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Age

• The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

  

  Liang Chow
  • Work
  • Goals

• As an Elizabeth native, I believe it is my duty to give back to my community. Our youth is our future, and it truly takes a village to raise a child.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Community

• Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Building
  • Approach
  • Adapt

• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time

• I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Important
  • Done

• Marc Jacobs Beauty is really exciting for me; when I was at school, I would always struggle to find make-up that suited my skin tone, and I certainly wouldn't find anything from a luxury brand. I'm glad that girls don't have that problem anymore.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Up
  • School
  • Struggle

• The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

  

  Peter Milligan