Peter Ustinov Quotes

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004

Topics

SadDayFoolI AmWorldEvery Day

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.

Joanna Lumley

FamilyLoveGrowYouGrow UpUp

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

Melvyn Bragg

WorkGreatThinkingYouFeelingUp

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

Steve Wynn

AnimalsWantMoreUpConcentration

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

Miley Cyrus

FamilyLovePeopleYouMatterYour

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WisdomUnityConstructionBuildings

Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.

Liz Tuccillo

MusicGodTimeDoingTelevision

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.

Jason Fried

WorkLeaderFrustrationPrideView

It's fun to be someone else.

Judy Gold

FunSomeoneElse

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Delia Smith

ArtCookingPeopleMeGameI Can

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

Colin Jost

SchoolHigh SchoolWayBusHigh

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Bob Hawke

GovernmentStupidManagementThinking

I'd rather enjoy meals, order bottles of red wine and eat creme brulee at the end of dinner. Then, when they call you for a photo shoot, you just go, 'Okay, time to hit the treadmill.'

Armie Hammer

TimeRedDinnerEndWineEnjoy

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