William Peter Blatty Quotes

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

William Peter Blatty

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• I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Born

• To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Great
  • God
  • Greatest

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Know

• Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Die
  • Judge
  • Islamic

• Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Time
  • Career
  • Path

• We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

  

  Arnon Goldfinger
  • Chess

• It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

  

  Priscilla Presley
  • Work
  • Children
  • Relationship

• A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

  

  Lydia M. Child

• There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Real
  • American
  • Mountain

• I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Sunset

• In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.

  

  David Beckham
  • Good
  • Children
  • Family

• Somewhere beneath her hurried curse, A corpse lies bounding in a hearse; And friends and relatives disperse, And are not stirred.

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Friends
  • Lies

• All it takes is one coach that believes in you.

  

  Jon Gruden

• Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • Children
  • Done

• I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

  

  Alex Abreu
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Told

• I think we did as much as we could and got out of the meet as much as we could. Most of our guys are entered in the American Short Course next weekend and it will give us a chance to get a few more cuts and go a little faster. The guys really embraced the seniors today and we have talked a lot about that and how you need to enjoy the trip along the way.

  

  Eddie Reese
  • Chance
  • Enjoy
  • Meet

• Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Long
  • Meetings

• We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Live
  • Sacrifice

• It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Interesting
  • Drum
  • Coordination

• Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Dull