Peter V. Brett Quotes

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

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• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Key

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Problems
  • Process
  • Down

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grow

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• I've got angels watching out for me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Me
  • Watching
  • Angels

• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Success

• The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • May
  • Die

• I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

  

  Charles Lindbergh

• I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Food

• My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fear

• Each person has a literature inside them.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Literature

• Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Office
  • Shine
  • Shining

• Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

  

  Bruce Rauner

• My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to those people who maybe had never read a Harry Potter book or seen the films.

  

  Colin Callender
  • People
  • Book
  • Film

• Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

  

  Peter V. Brett
  • People
  • Better
  • Deserve