Peter Helliar Quotes & Sayings

I want something that is nothing like the past. — Brooke Bida

Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego. — Gemma Halliday

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny. — Peter Farrelly

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy De Maupassant

All this belongs to the language of ghosts. There are many other possible kinds of talks in this language. Most of them begin when one person says to another: I wish. What they wish for might be anything at all, as long as it is something that cannot happen. I wish the sun would never set. I wish money would grow in my pockets. I wish the city would be like it was in the old days. You get the idea. — Paul Auster

This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. — Kurt Vonnegut

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit. — Richard M. Weaver