Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
-
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
-
God doesn't know things. He is things.
-
I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
-
Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
-
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
-
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
-
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
-
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
-
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
-
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
-
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
-
I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.
-
There were times when I didn't think I would even be at the European Championship. so to be walking off the field, having scored the winning goal in front of our home fans, just got too much for me.
-
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.
-
Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.
-
I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.
-
I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
-
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
-
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
-
The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.
-
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
-
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
-
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
