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Peter Shaffer Quotes

I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'

Peter Shaffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: english
Birth: May 15, 1926 - June 6, 2016

Topics

Words You Look Wonder Dangerous

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Jim Renacci

Health Saying Care Need Reform

We understand that conglomerates have no future.

Joe Kaeser

Future Understand No Future

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

Joaquin Phoenix

Time Purpose You Movies See Many

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Maynard James Keenan

Life Live I Am Me Writing I Can

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

Maurice Sendak

You Want Something Terrifying

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

Jeff Raikes

Future Business Children Medical Bad

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

Jefferson Davis

Power Government People Resume Birth

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

John Wanamaker

King Me Customer Forget Store He

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

Alvaro Enrigue

Life Man Story Living Bloom Never

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Stacy London

Money Doing You Look New Need

Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.

Tom Rath

Focus People Negative Negativity Way

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

Martin Seligman

Truth Knowledge Opinion Literature