Mike Peters Quotes
With all the constructions planned for downtown, there will be interruptions to businesses. They're going to affect city traffic patterns and parking issues and we want to be on top of it before it happens.
Quotes to Explore
-
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
-
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
-
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
-
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
-
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
-
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
-
I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
-
A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
-
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
-
The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
-
Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
-
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
-
The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
-
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
-
Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
-
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
-
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
-
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
-
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.
-
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-
With all the constructions planned for downtown, there will be interruptions to businesses. They're going to affect city traffic patterns and parking issues and we want to be on top of it before it happens.
