Peter O'Toole Quotes

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Peter O'Toole

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• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Achievement
  • Year

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Relationship
  • Person

• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
  • Nice

• We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Africa
  • Belong
  • South Africa

• I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Alive

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

  

  Otto Weininger

• Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Great
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

  

  Edward Young
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Ambition

• The life that I aspire to liveNo man proposeth me-No trade upon the streetWears its emblazonry.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life

• Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Police

• Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Kids
  • Journey
  • Kid

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Dying
  • Try

• There's a remedy for everything except death.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Death
  • Dying
  • Remedy