Peter O'Toole Quotes

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Help
  • Value
  • Childhood

• I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Girl
  • Fight
  • Nothing

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Fact

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hope
  • Drama
  • Hollywood

• The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Dull
  • Novelist

• The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Envy
  • Lust
  • Selfishness

• IN LIFE BE YOU SHOULD ALWAYS TAKE RISKS, UNLESS THEY INVOLVE GETTING HURT IN THE PROCESS.

  

  Tom Parker
  • Life
  • Should
  • Process

• In my ideal writing environment, I'd be surrounded by nice visual art in a room with a window and high ceilings. The window would have to give me natural light.

  

  Dan Wilson
  • Writing
  • Light
  • Environment

• The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Writing
  • Drawing
  • Illustration

• If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Forget