Peckinpah Films Quotes & Sayings

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel. — Laurie Helgoe

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. — Alain De Botton

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The body is an arrangement in spacetime, a patterning, a process; the mind is a process of the body, an organ, doing what organs do: organize. Order, pattern, connect ... an immensely flexible technology, or life strategy, which if used with skill and resourcefulness presents each of us with that most fascinating of all serials, The Story of My Life. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We all go through stages. Concern about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and notices, and trying to establish yourself - all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
Life's tests refine you — Sandra Merrill Covey

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics. — Henry A. Kissinger

I have not seen Al Gore's movie. — Dick Cheney

Home is not a place, Not a smell, Not a face, But a space In your heart. -M. White — Staci Hart

I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah. — Ann Nocenti

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper. — Elie Wiesel

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while. — Richard Farnsworth

People learn when they are ready to learn.
Are you ready? — Lorii Myers

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah. — Neil Marshall