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Laurence J. Peter Quotes

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Mind Desk Clean Significance

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Tough Times God Tough Think Learn

There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?

Girl Time Process Better Person Why

The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm.

Live History Poetry Die Reward Land

The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.

Life Men War Chance Planning Stop

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Good Beginning End Bad Filmmaking

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

Work Better Creation Nothing Try Up

I've been a staunch Republican.

Montel Williams

Republican Been Staunch

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

Love Amazing Me Help Run She

I love the 'Omen' films because they're real and scary; 'The Exorcist' because I really thought that could happen; 'The Believers' because that was really great.

Love Great Thought Real Scary Could

I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.

Family Children Proud Enough Lucky

I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait.

Christina Hendricks

Life Wait Play Now Everyone Big

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Children Society Toys Away Cure

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