Peter Gabriel Quotes

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

Peter Gabriel Genesis

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• Darkness
• Emptiness

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Road

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Like
  • Bread
  • Turkey

• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Words

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Worthy
  • Boom

• I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Character
  • History

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• If Mr. Lloyd George had no good qualities, no charms, no fascinations, he would not be dangerous. If he were not a syren, we need not fear the whirlpools.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Good
  • Fear

• Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Director

• Only the dead are free of the influence of others.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Free

• Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Work
  • She

• The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

  

  John Cornyn
  • Long
  • Enemy

• With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Fear
  • Darkness
  • Emptiness