Peter O'Toole Quotes

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

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• I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • More
  • Relief
  • Pitcher

• I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Always
  • Lines
  • Walls

• Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Guy
  • You
  • Acting

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Hard
  • Lines

• I remember certain lines and whose they are.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Remember
  • Lines
  • I Remember

• I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Lines

• I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Lines
  • Perfume
  • Clothings

• Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Pay
  • Lines
  • Misdeeds

• There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Moving

• Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Causes
  • Lines

• Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Lines
  • Circles
  • Vocabulary

• We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Focus

• I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Economic

• Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Should
  • Lines
  • Ada

• Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • War

• The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Race
  • Lines
  • Ethnicity

• Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Way
  • Lines
  • Projects

• I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Cool

• I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kids
  • Feels
  • Stage

• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Discipline

• We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Road
  • Bunch
  • Relief

• If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

  

  Beaumont Newhall
  • Photograph
  • Faithful
  • Historian

• It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Lines
  • Relief
  • Fronts