Famous Peter Cook Quotes & Sayings

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control. — Booker T. Washington

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. — Peter Drucker

Be happy she's crying," he said. "That's when you know they still feel something for you. The time when they look at you with dry eyes is when you've lost them. — Jessica Clare

It's funny what love can do to a person. It strips them of everything, even their instincts. It creates a new reality for you to adhere to, a new world where you break the rules just to keep the love intact. — Karina Halle

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science. — Jane Mayer

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment. — Peter Steele

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. — Leonardo Da Vinci

You know where nice people end up? On welfare. — Kelly Cutrone

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed. — Liang Chow

The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure - and so often, people are unsure - is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee. — Adam Thirlwell

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification. — Isak Dinesen

But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan.
Overnight I became a good player.
I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good.
I wanted to live up to the expectations.
I guess that's what it comes down to.
The power of expectations.
And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew. — Sherman Alexie

Grace comes particularly where calculation has come to an end. — Craig Keen

I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters. — Philip Palmer