Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Peter Tork The Monkees

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• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

  Larry King
  • Being
  • Broadcaster

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Experience
  • History
  • Law

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Know
  • Question

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Travel
  • Too Much
  • Pets

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I like girls. they make me feel funny. that's why i like daniel, cause he's a femme, and he makes me feel funny.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Funny
  • Girls
  • I Like

• I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• I happily went on holiday with my parents until I was 18, because we always had such a good time that I didn't want to venture off and do my own thing. I have very fond memories of those holidays with my brother, mum, and dad.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parents

• I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Music
  • House
  • Car