Peretti Quotes & Sayings

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model. — Elsa Peretti

The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers. — Jonah Peretti

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology. — Chelsea Peretti

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace. — Elsa Peretti

I really want to interview Larry David. — Chelsea Peretti

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind. — Elsa Peretti

If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense. — Frank E. Peretti

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions. — Jonah Peretti

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English. — Elsa Peretti

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity. — Elsa Peretti

But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand. — Frank E. Peretti

Preach Christ . . . and if you must, use words." Comforting others puts our pain into perspective. — Frank E. Peretti

I design for the working girl. — Elsa Peretti

I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement. — Chelsea Peretti

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas. — Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion. — Jonah Peretti

You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it. — Jonah Peretti

The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue. — Frank E. Peretti

What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple. — Elsa Peretti

I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact. — Jonah Peretti

These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered! — Frank Peretti

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company. — Jonah Peretti

Why are old maps always burnt? — Chelsea Peretti

I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around. — Chelsea Peretti

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. — Elsa Peretti

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company. — Jonah Peretti

What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price. — Elsa Peretti

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck. — Elsa Peretti

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures. — Chelsea Peretti

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy. — Chelsea Peretti

I understand that sometimes the truth of God's Word can become a divider, an irritation, a stone of stumbling. But that's only because it remains unchanged, uncompromising, and steadfast. And what better reason could there be to build our lives on such an immovable foundation? To violate the Word of God is only to destroy ourselves, our joy, our peace, our happiness. — Frank E. Peretti

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it, — Elsa Peretti

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know? — Chelsea Peretti

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward. — Jonah Peretti

I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with the community. — Chelsea Peretti

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better. — Frank E. Peretti

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God. — Frank E. Peretti

On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone. — Chelsea Peretti

People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share. — Jonah Peretti

The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. — Frank E. Peretti

Do you guys think its worse to wear a fedora or kill 15 people? — Chelsea Peretti

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free ... — Frank E. Peretti

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design. — Elsa Peretti

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time? — Jonah Peretti

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas. — Elsa Peretti

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it. — Frank E. Peretti

I will go to the saints first. Already there is plenty in Bacon's Corner for them to be upset about, plenty to divide them. I will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying." He — Frank E. Peretti

Sin is the monster we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven and empowered to overcome sin ... but toying with an animal that is actually toying with us is a sure way to lose part of ourselves. — Frank E. Peretti

It's pretty satisfying to use an image when you don't have a great articulate response. And to be able to customize emoji? Imagine if you were a car enthusiast and you were able to create a car from scratch. That's what this is like for me. I'm an emoji enthusiast. — Chelsea Peretti

The Strongman continued his mental review. "And the petty little saints in the town were . . . obscure, don't you see, far from help, far from the mainstream, alone amid the rolling farmlands . . . unknown. It was a perfect place to begin the process." His beastly face grew tight and bitter. "Until they started praying. Until they ceased being so comfortable and started weeping before God! Until they began to reclaim the power of the . . ." The Strongman sealed his lips. "The Cross?" the aide volunteered. — Frank E. Peretti

Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best. — Chelsea Peretti

Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses. — Jonah Peretti

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. — Nick Denton

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time. — Elsa Peretti

TAL HAD TO laugh. Hardly presentable! Wasn't it strange, the way humans looked at themselves with eyes of flesh and not of the Spirit? Certainly that dear woman had been through mire and filth of every degree; she was scarred, exhausted, ragged, and dirty. But to the angels, she appeared as God Himself saw her, just as any other redeemed saint of the living God: pure, shining, clean, dressed in garments as white as snow. — Frank E. Peretti

The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it. — Frank E. Peretti

So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing. — Frank E. Peretti

Bird cages are nothing of incredible value, but I like them. — Elsa Peretti

Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway. — Frank E. Peretti

I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang. — Elsa Peretti

God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful. — Frank E. Peretti

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away. — Frank E. Peretti

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads. — Jonah Peretti

I like to do things that are classic. — Elsa Peretti

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore. — Frank E. Peretti

I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like. — Frank E. Peretti

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is. — Chelsea Peretti

Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course. — Frank E. Peretti

Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time."
As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and spoke some quiet but impassioned words to them. Hank and Mary listened, as did the others nearby, and as they listened, they began to smile. They put their arms around her, they told her about Jesus, and then they began to weep as well. Finally, as the saints were gathered and Bernice was surrounded with loving arms, Hank said the words, "Let's pray ... — Frank E. Peretti

At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news. — Jonah Peretti

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset. — Frank E. Peretti

I always write in pencil, so I can erase. — Elsa Peretti

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs. — Chelsea Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. — Elsa Peretti

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school - to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task. — Frank E. Peretti

You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them. — Jonah Peretti

Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced. — Elsa Peretti

So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. — Chelsea Peretti

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - EPHESIANS 6:12 — Frank E. Peretti

I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die. — Chelsea Peretti

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual. Increasingly, in a world that seeks to establish its own knowledge and values without God, we find our concept of humanity falling through the cracks. If, as our children are so often taught, we are nothing but a cosmic accident that arose for no reason out of primordial slime, and that the stronger among us are necessarily the better among us, then where does love fit in, or kindness to those in need, or simply going out of our way to lend a hand to a fellow human being? — Frank E. Peretti

People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content. — Jonah Peretti

My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful. — Chelsea Peretti

People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of. — Jonah Peretti

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true. — Jonah Peretti

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father. — Frank E. Peretti

All my work comes out of my life. — Elsa Peretti

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential. — Jonah Peretti

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room. — Frank E. Peretti

A truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual — Frank E. Peretti

It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames. — Jonah Peretti

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. — Elsa Peretti

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends. — Chelsea Peretti

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic. — Chelsea Peretti

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time. — Jonah Peretti

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the "real comedians". I like the idea of positioning myself as legendary rather than trying to fit in. Now do I see myself like that every day? No, but I think it's a funny attitude and maybe on some weird, spiritual level, maybe it's a good attitude. — Chelsea Peretti

I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology. — Jonah Peretti

I like winning, it just takes longer — Frank E. Peretti

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things. — Elsa Peretti

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas — Jonah Peretti