Peter Ustinov Quotes

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Peter Ustinov

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• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Military
  • Doing
  • Prevail

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

  

  Foster Friess
  • War
  • Surprise
  • Technique

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • School
  • Money

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Living
  • Just

• A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Sound
  • Marketing

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Heart
  • Character
  • History

• But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

  

  David Hume
  • Art
  • Practice

• I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Design
  • Ambition

• Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.'

  

  Pontius Pilate
  • World
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

  

  John Milton
  • Truth
  • Falsehood
  • Grapple

• The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Truth
  • Ambition