Peter Murphy Quotes

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

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• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Happy
  • You

• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Time
  • Long
  • Past

• It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Business
  • Age

• I either go all in or all out.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Long
  • Live

• We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Fire
  • Rain

• It did help. I didn't have to think about defense. I felt good today. I felt strong in my last at-bat.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Help
  • Today

• Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Sense
  • Lose

• Where you are right now blast some music and forget.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Forget
  • Blast

• Every woman wants to feel great about themselves. It's just nice to feel supported in that way, and it's what my live shows are about - just making women feel stronger, and better, and celebrating. You get to see people's flaws and everyone comes together in their own way. But it's also nice to celebrate who they are.

  

  Bridget Everett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Stronger

• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Family
  • Society
  • Personality

• Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Listen

• The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.

  

  Suzy Menkes
  • Clothes
  • Press
  • Comment

• We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Book
  • Magic
  • Bible

• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  

  William Farr
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Importance

• [S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

  

  Peter Murphy Bauhaus
  • Nihilism
  • Reap