Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

Peter Tork The Monkees

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• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • High
  • Pretty

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• T Rex could not run.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Run
  • Could
  • t

• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Never
  • Cancer
  • Mouth

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Book
  • Chance
  • Learn

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Day

• People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.

  

  Kate Spade
  • People
  • Organization
  • Start

• If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • New York
  • Run

• I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Anything
  • Much
  • Distracted

• Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Sales
  • iPhone

• My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • First
  • Year
  • NASA

• The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• 'The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.''Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Law

• I want to keep doing what I'm doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I'm afraid I'll miss out on a smash record.

  

  Future
  • Long

• There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Important
  • Kids

• My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

  

  David Korten
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees