Peg Quotes

• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Ideas

  Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

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• You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Squares, Firsts, Artistic

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• I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Play, Important

  "Jonah Hill ALLEN GREGORY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Ideas

  c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.

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• Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Two, Sometimes

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

  Helen Rowland

  Jest, Wit, Cynic

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hate, Teaching

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

  Walter Isaacson

  Change, Success, Meaningful

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

  Mick Ralphs

  Home, Squares, Kind

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• Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

  Sly Stone

  Legs, Casinos, Lasts

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• Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Screws

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.739, e-artnow

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• You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Might, Certain, Intonation

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

  Ray Liotta

  Independent, Squares, Becoming

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• I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

  Katey Sagal

  Fun, Having Fun

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• You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

  Joe DiMaggio

  Motivational, Running, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

  Lois Lowry

  Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words

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• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

  Peg Bracken

  Love, Christmas, Time

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• If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Heart, Character

  Raymond Carver (2016). “Where I'm Calling From”, p.14, Random House

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• Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

  P. T. Barnum

  Circus, Clown, Hung

  Tampa Bay Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January/February 1990.

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• You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

  Michael Parenti

  Political, Necks, Feels

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.150, City Lights Books

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• Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  War, Rocks, Two

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• My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

  Rumi

  Love, Teaching, Two

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• So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.

  Ruth Benedict

  Marriage, Children, Home

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