Peter Quotes - Page 16

• Peter also uses his wig as a cereal bowl... He'll some times have some, like, Top Ramen in it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Cereal, Wigs

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• I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

  Jamie Bell

  Peter Parker

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• Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

  Ayn Rand

  Important, Purpose, Way

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• All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
  For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
  When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
  I could tell you things about Peter Pan
  and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

  Tom Lehrer

  Book, Dirty, Men

  Song: Smut, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Silence

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Ovid

  Men, Naps, Alcohol

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• The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!

  Pope Pius IX

  Rocks, Dwelling, Church

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• At 6 foot 7 Peter Crouch isn't as tall as he looks.

  Gabby Logan

  Football, Feet, Looks

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• Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

  Tom Brokaw

  Forever, Brotherhood

  "Katrina Victims Remembered at Emmys; NFL Hosts Telethon During Saints Game". "Showbiz Tonight", edition.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.

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• So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

  Jackson Browne

  Writing, People, Example

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• What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed. It'll only last for about a minute. Now get ready to run." I don't understand. How does Peter know? "Let me carry her," Tobias says. "No. You're a better shot than I am. Take my gun. I'll carry her.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Gun, Voice

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• We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

  Paul Reiser

  Smile, Long, People

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

  Phil Collins

  Song, Gabriel, Saws

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• Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

  Paul Reiser

  Winning, Fans, Would Be

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• Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

  Goldie Hawn

  Crazy, Men, Lovely

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• Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Class, Acting, Acting Classes

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• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Artist, Order

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Growing Up, Eye, Expression

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• Peter: Where are you two going? Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner? Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured. Christina: Yeah right, you are! Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here. Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you. Peter: Yep! Have fun dying.

  Veronica Roth

  Fun, Two, Dying

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• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  Ian Anderson

  Mean, Guitar, Eric

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• Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together

  Paul Reiser

  Fun, Thinking, Together

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• Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like ‘our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?” “You could not,” I allowed. “Can I, can I have the email address?” “Of course,” Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.

  John Green

  Grace, Intellectual, Email

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.69, Penguin

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• I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Ignorance, Hiding, Said

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• A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Breathing, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

  John Green

  Hands, Ducks, Together

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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