Peter York Quotes

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Peter York

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Poor
  • Alphabet
  • Illogical

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Book
  • Attention

• I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Know
  • Wife
  • Justice

• The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Good
  • Fall
  • Fly

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• (Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People
  • Children
  • Moral

• If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • World

• Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Great

• I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Good
  • High
  • Rock

• I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Important
  • Scary

• When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • World
  • America
  • Lost

• I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Time
  • Fall

• Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • School
  • High
  • College

• When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Political
  • Decision

• As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

  

  Chaz Bono

• I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • World
  • Famous

• The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Today

• Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • Life
  • Universe

• Charm her into agreeing to have sex with him, and in the morning she’d hate him for taking advantage of her sensual weakness when her heart wasn’t at all in it. But, mostly, she’d end up hating herself for being weak, and foolish, and for not guarding her heart and her body better.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Advantage
  • Weakness
  • Heart

• Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Respect
  • Reason
  • Security

• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  

  Peter York
  • Architecture
  • Jewellery
  • Chandeliers