Quotes & Sayings About Chris Petersen

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. — Mark Twain

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books. — Alan Lightman

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago — Dana Carvey

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater. — Katharine Whitehorn

My father had once told me the story of how, when he was in the work camp, a truckload of giant logs was brought in to be chopped. He was on ax duty with a gang of twelve. It was a dreadfully hot summer and each swing of the blade was torture. He hacked at a log and there was the unmistakable sound of metal hitting metal. He bent down and found a mushroom-shaped chunk of lead embedded in the trunk. A bullet. He counted the rings from the perimeter to the bullet and found they matched his age exactly.

We never escape ourselves, he said to me years later. — Colum McCann

I don't feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I'm 'edgy.' Been there, done that mentality. I'm just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist. — Chrissie Fit

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind. — Norman Vincent Peale

Son of a Merryweather, he's a lot stronger than he looks. — Nicki Elson

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams

The mind messes up more shots than the body. — Tommy Bolt

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. — Isabel Allende