Laurence Johnston Peter Quotes & Sayings

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. — David Fincher

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. — Malcolm Gladwell

If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything. — Allen Ginsberg

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me. — Shaquille O'Neal

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead. — Thomas Carlyle

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you. — Robert Plant

When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case." — Gloria Estefan

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over. — Andy Warhol