Peter Gabriel Quotes

I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

Peter Gabriel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 13, 1950

Topics

LearningThinkBetterGuiltyEmpty

I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.

Jessye Norman

LookingNobodySort

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

John Hewson

TimePoliticsStressWifeNewNever

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

Angela Rye

WorkFatherFightMeBlackParty

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Michael B. Jordan

LoveSportsBaseballGrowing UpUp

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Stephen Jay Gould

HistoryPeopleBrilliantEvidence

We don't teach our children how to dream.

Stephen LaBerge

ChildrenDreamTeachOurHow

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Townsend Harris

WishesPresidentIntroductionMayHe

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Mohsin Hamid

AngerTerrorismNaturalResponse

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

Janine di Giovanni

TimePainWarPeopleDoctorBecome

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about.

Derek Jeter

CharacterPeopleMeWorryYouSay

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

William Wilberforce

BusinessWalkMenMeWorldQuit

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

Peter Mullan

WorldFindNowMoreKidAbsurd

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