Peter O'Toole Quotes

Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

Peter O'Toole

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Experience
  • Culture

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Talking

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Something
  • Records
  • Release

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Singing
  • Feel
  • Journey

• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Mind
  • You
  • Practice

• It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Story
  • Media

• The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Proud
  • Smart
  • Stone

• 'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Poverty

• So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • World
  • Heart
  • Evil

• My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Career

• Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Bad

• I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Work

• Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Power
  • Amazing
  • Cutting

• If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • Why
  • Look

• Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Book
  • Artist
  • Cutting