Peter Uihlein Quotes

It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does.

Peter Uihlein

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• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

• I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Play
  • Thought
  • Window

• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Success

• When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Fun
  • Parents

• To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Disagree
  • Disagreeable

• I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.

  

  Sally Field
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Looking

• The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Democracy
  • Beauty
  • Random

• I'm a wannabe redhead, definitely wannabe Julianne Moore or Jessica Chastain redhead. But I love being a brunette.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Love
  • Being
  • Brunette

• My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Fiction
  • Watch

• I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Hurt

• It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Job
  • Best
  • Behavior

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Feet

• He stood, and heard the steepleSprinkle the quarters on the morning town.One, two, three, four, to market-place and peopleIt tossed them down.Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Morning
  • Luck

• We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Small
  • Door
  • Intelligent

• The predominant colour of the kitchen - its walls, cupboards, floor, shelves - with all the ancillary rooms - pantries, larders, cold stores, and sculleries, is green - Hooker's dark green, leaf-green, emerald, faded turquoise, and eau-de-nile - like the colours of a dark wet jungle.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Dark
  • Cold
  • Green

• Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• If a claim is worth making, make it in the most specific way.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Way
  • Worth

• It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does.

  

  Peter Uihlein