Peter Welch Quotes

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

Peter Welch

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • Real
  • Family

• Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Science
  • Everyday

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • May
  • Today
  • Leader

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feminist
  • Saying

• Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Light
  • Know
  • Fruit

• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Happy
  • Career
  • End

• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Together
  • Bad
  • Band

• You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Script
  • Cameron

• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Today
  • You
  • Teach

• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Politics

• You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

  

  Ed Koch
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Me

• I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

  

  Doris Lessing

• I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table - blond pasta, blond pizza - and then someone joked, 'Blonde salad,' and it stuck.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Friends
  • Pizza
  • Blonde

• What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Perfect
  • Sunshine

• There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • People

• In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

  

  Peter Welch