Peter Clemenza Quotes

Boys. It's late. If you're not gonna kill me, what do you want? ~ Edward Falco

In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and open razor, deriding my ignorance and mocking the made-up discipline of sociology, which I at one stage claimed to be studying. 'What is sociology?' he roared derisively, twisting and rolling the silly word on his Hampshire tongue. I knew, alas, that he was quite right. ~ Peter Hitchens

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. ~ Peter J. Daniels

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way. ~ Peter Hook

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward. ~ Peter Capaldi

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. ~ Peter Kreeft

They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night. ~ Mark Helprin

You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet. ~ Peter Storey

How ably you can explain a text is an excellent cue for judging comprehension, because you must recall the salient points from memory, put them into your own words, and explain why they are significant - how they relate to the larger subject. ~ Peter C. Brown

...the hair...that frizzy nest which grew outwards, horizontal like a wind-blown tree in an Italianate painting. ~ Peter Carey

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending. ~ Peter Matthiessen

You will have noticed by this time, of course, that St. Thomas almost always solves a dilemma by making a distinction. That is not a quirk of his personality or even of his method, but a reflection of the nature of reality. Reality is complex: it has many dimensions, "there are more things in Heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your [always-simplistic and abstracted] philosophy" (Hamlet). This is the source of nearly all dilemmas and apparent contradictions, and therefore the key to their resolution. ~ Peter Kreeft

When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains. ~ Peter McWilliams

Utah is close to becoming the latest state to legalize medical marijuana.But one DEA agent raised the alarm in front of the Utah legislature. He warned them that rabbits might eat the weed. And then what would you have? You'd have a bunch of weed-crazed rabbits running around. They'd run rampant in the state's cornfields and taco orchards. ~ Peter Sagal

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature. ~ Peter Senge

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it. ~ Laurence J. Peter

Just a boy, Just a child,
In a place where no one grows up;

Young bodies with old minds,
Dream and nightmare reign side by side,
In a place where no one grows up;

A time when darkness shrouded the sun,
Vengeance birthed from sea and blood,
Many had fallen in the war never won,
In a place where no one grows up;

When the boy's heart grieved he became more of a man,
When the pirate's heart hardened with the loss of his hand,
One dreadful night everything changed and feuds began,
Now the ghosts from their mistakes are tied to this land,
In a place where no one grows up;

Just a boy, just a child, in appearance it's true,
But children can carry terrible burdens too,
For sometimes stopping time doesn't mean forever youth,
Living, forgetting, loving, seething, bearing an all too heavy truth;

Just a boy, Just a child,
In a place where no one grows up. ~ Emory R. Frie

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power. ~ Peter S. Beagle

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw "the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply "space. ~ Peter Kreeft

While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats. ~ Peter Saul

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege. ~ Peter Shumlin

You boys are really turning into a bunch of Peter Pans," he said. "Willem, what are you? Thirty-six? I'm not sure what's going on with you lot. You're making money. You've achieved something. Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option? ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~ Laurence J. Peter

The relief it swept his face like pushing off a cloud shadow. I ~ Peter Heller

You can only be stupid when you're young. ~ Peter Gallagher

It was the Reverend Ben Swift Chambers who was the acknowledged founding father of St Domingo's football team and therefore Everton FC. Chambers' unkempt, lost grave was discovered in the Yorkshire village of Shepley, and then restored thanks to the investigative work of author Peter Lupson and the full support of Everton FC. ~ Everton Football Club

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. ~ Peter O'Toole

The reason we have to regulate ... church schools is that ... children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in. ~ Peter Hoagland

The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding. ~ Peter J. Gomes

pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met. ~ Peter Thiel

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent. ~ Peter Zumthor

We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index. ~ Peter Hargreaves

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway. ~ Peter MacKay

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats. ~ Peter Singer

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done. ~ Peter Diamandis

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson ... talking about Europe, talking about political reform. ~ Nick Clegg

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. ~ Peter Singer

Why did Freud write a book about which he had such doubts? We can only conjecture. Peter Gay wrote that "it is highly plausible that some of the impulses guiding Freud's arguments in Totem and Taboo emerged from his hidden life; in some respects the book represents a round in his never finished wrestling bout with Jacob Freud." Gay also mentions that Freud realized he was "publishing scientific fantasies. ~ Armand M. Nicholi Jr.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there. ~ Peter DeFazio

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow. ~ Emma Thompson

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions. ~ Peter Guber

Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed. ~ Peter Scott

White crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide. ~ Peter Matthiessen

Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status. ~ Peter Behrens

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here. ~ Peter Uihlein

I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying. ~ L.M. Montgomery

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music. ~ Peter Tork

If you accept a label, then you become it. So if someone wants to label you in a way that limits and controls your life, then why would you ever accept it? ~ Peter Baksa