Peter Quotes

• We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Rabbits
  • Potters

• There's a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, ... Others will step in and fill in his shoes excellently. But no one can replace the unique presence that was Peter.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Unique

• Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Angel
  • Land
  • Paradise

• No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Replace

• What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Says
  • Paul
  • Peter

• Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Cowboy
  • Western
  • Fronts

• There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Action
  • Brilliant
  • Admire

• Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Job
  • Unique
  • Excellence

• My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.

  

  Michael Easton
  • Wise
  • Books
  • Loved

• In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Compassion
  • Shows
  • Pay

• You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

  

  Merle Travis
  • Company
  • Deeper
  • Stores

• I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

  

  Michael Bond
  • People
  • Film
  • Decided

• Just as Jesus called out Peter as being of the devil for tempting him to take an easy way out, I believe such thoughts originate from the same place of fear. We can’t imagine how we’ll get through such a painful ordeal, so we want to take the first way out we see. We don’t want to have to suffer, uncertain of when—or if—we will come out the other side.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Jesus
  • Devil
  • Peter

• One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Roles
  • Doors
  • Assumption

• When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.

  

  Thelma Houston
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Might