Peter De Vries Quotes

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Peter De Vries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

Topics

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Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don't. Once again, that's the league that we're in. That's not the league that used to be.

Jimmy Butler

YouPlayWantPersonalTakeDefense

I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

Joanne Froggatt

RealityPersonCheapOverwhelmedGet

I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.

John Grant

IdentityThinkCrisisDifferentFive

I want to say something in a tough-love kind of way about crop insurance. Let's face it: You don't buy insurance on your house hoping it will burn down. Neither do we want to buy crop insurance and hope our crop fails so we can file.

Sonny Perdue

HopeFaceInsuranceYouHouseBurn

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Steven Pinker

PeopleWorldChanceUnderestimateUs

My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.

Trombone Shorty

BrotherInfluenceGrandfatherBiggest

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.

Mitch McConnell

PeopleElectionThugWayWouldMost

Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.

Cindy Sheehan

PeopleCountryLyingKnownOur

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

William Shatner

LifeWaveSurfingGiant

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

FailureFaithManSelfTrueHuman

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.

Susan Vreeland

StrengthWomenGodPowerArtLight

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

Sean Parker

PersonalityThinkDoingOutBeen

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