Peter Morgan Quotes

Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on.

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Ever

• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Peace

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Own
  • Reward

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Empathy

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Spring

• Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Great
  • She
  • Writer

• When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Energy
  • Me

• Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Cat

• If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • History
  • Cold

• The Soviet Union bureaucracy not only has not disappeared, yielding its place to the masses, but has turned into an uncontrolled force dominating the masses.

  

  Leon Trotsky

• I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Good
  • Reading

• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

  

  Doris Humphrey
  • Art
  • Words

• I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'

  

  Peter Berg
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Winning

• The press – the popular press – is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon.

  

  David Mellor
  • Popular
  • Drinking

• For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • People
  • Car
  • Two

• Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

  

  James Prescott Joule
  • God
  • Universe

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suffering
  • Courage
  • Discipline

• Sometimes it's okay for an audience not to understand everything that's going on.

  

  Peter Morgan