Peter O'Toole Quotes
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
-
I read part of it all the way through.
-
If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
-
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
-
I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
-
I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
-
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
-
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
-
Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
-
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
-
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
-
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
-
By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
-
I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
-
Habit is the nursery of errors.
-
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
-
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
-
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
