Peter Straub Quotes

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

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• Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Attention
  • Some

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Law
  • President
  • Call

• In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Senior
  • Senior Citizens

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • American
  • Community
  • White

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Song
  • Inspired

• Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Success
  • Running
  • Failure

• We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Opportunity
  • Law
  • Justice

• Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • Society
  • Christian

• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Fear

• A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• the 1960's began with a feeling of tremendous liberation, because I at last had space and money and time to work on a much bigger scale.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Society

• Friday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city. Or, maybe the easiest. Because at five o'clock on a Friday nobody pays attention to anything. Except the road ahead.

  

  Lee Child
  • Time
  • Attention
  • City

• The change is from inner to outer. - We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Attitude

• They should rule who are able to rule best.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Should
  • Rule

• Scriptures make it clear that we can drink of God’s river now, here, in this life, even if it’s only in a measure. We don’t have to wait to drink until we’ve passed on into the glorified state. Jesus said this river would flow into us, through us, and out of us to others. “‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’” (John 7:38). This glorious river of the Spirit is available to each of us, and the greater our thirst, the greater our participation in this river (see Matthew 5:6). We can drink of this river now! Its source is God.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Spirit
  • Source
  • Measure

• Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spiritual

• Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Disease

• If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

  

  Peter Straub