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Peter Mayle Quotes

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: June 14, 1939 - January 18, 2018

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Father School Me Weather Enough Hot

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

God Time Go Always Holiness Idea

I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.

Think Thought America You Lesson

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

Character Great Performance You Go

In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.

Tide Rising Than Consumption Less

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

Roger Bannister

Always Hold British Been Mile Had

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

Sail Ship Without Like Around Were

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

Love Anger Competition Spark Meaning

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Future School Computers High School

If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these guys who have done so much. I'm not Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods - I'm just an old, gray-beard mountain climber, but I'm hoping to inspire people to follow my way.

Good Mountain People Me Woods Tiger

I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.

Brandon Uranowitz

Beauty Live Art New Things Fun Find

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Impossible Wrong Possible Right He

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

Nature Challenge Face Seeing Human

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