Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Peter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

Topics

TimePastLongLostBureaucracyQuo

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

GreatPoetryWritingBookProse

I like watching Tom Brady, not just because he's handsome - I get handsome; I understand handsome - but he's a fine leader, he's a great quarterback, and I like the team. I'm not going to apologize for that.

Jennifer Garner

LeaderGreatTeamHandsomeWatching

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

John Conyers

WomenChildrenMenViolenceInnocent

Since its inception, the American nation has had on its official seal the following motto: 'e pluribus unum,' which in Latin means, 'from the many, one.' That would change dramatically if Puerto Rico were to become a state.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

ChangeMottoAmericanPuerto Rico

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Karr

LoveMarriageBeautifulEndDream

After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

Toni Collette

GoodMeRoadOvercomingFatWedding

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Tony Randall

WorkMorningFunWaitingEvening

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

Judith Leiber

FamilyGoodAgeStoryAlwaysThread

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Lord Byron

LifeMenDeathSleepThirdWeep

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

Diane Sawyer

PeopleThinkComfortableSureEver

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

Donella Meadows

GrowthStupidGoalWay

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

Douglas Booth

SmallSomeoneSexualityWhoPart

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