Peter Shilton Quotes

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

Peter Shilton

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• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Student
  • Bloom

• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Best
  • Yourself

• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Think
  • Eyes

• I am proud of my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Proud

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Parents

• Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Country
  • History
  • Negative

• In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Government
  • China
  • Improve

• I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Day

• When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Age
  • Parents
  • College

• Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • Together
  • Day

• I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Days
  • Got
  • Few

• What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Spiritual
  • Greatest

• When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • She
  • Kids
  • House

• But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

  

  Gerard Arpey
  • Thinking
  • Popularity
  • Diminished

• I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

  

  Peter Shilton